“Small carnivores such as mongoose and crows pose a threat to the night heron chicks.”

“The main suspect to date is the civet cat, a cat-like mammal closely related to the mongoose.”

“The Egyptian mongoose is mainly nocturnal, although it sometimes hunts during the day.”

“Not birds, you lamebrain, dey stole mongeese. Little animals from over in India, day kill da snakes, da cobras dere.”

“These mongeese were soon in demand all through the islands as rat-catchers.”

“Leopards, hyenas, jackals, sloth bears, cobras, pythons, mongooses and monitor lizards move silently through its forests.”

“The galliwasp is also killed by dogs, cats and mongooses, and by people who mistakenly consider it to be venomous.”

“On land penguins also have a number of enemies which include leopards, caraculs, kelp gulls and mongooses.”