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UK
/mˈɒŋɡuːs/
]
[ US /ˈmɑŋɡus/ ]
[ US /ˈmɑŋɡus/ ]
NOUN
- agile grizzled Old World viverrine; preys on snakes and rodents
How To Use mongoose In A Sentence
- Frankly, she held her nose and said it stank like the henhouse when a mongoose has spoiled the eggs. HOMELAND AND OTHER STORIES
- Leopards, hyenas, jackals, sloth bears, cobras, pythons, mongooses and monitor lizards move silently through its forests.
- Frankly, I thought the mongoose was a made up mythical creature… until I saw one. Why did the mongoose cross the road?
- The most interesting part was when the lecturer talked about a character called William Bunting, who used to catch wild adders to feed to the mongooses at London Zoo.
- The Mongoose Lemur (scientific name Lemur mongoz) is not a mongoose at all, but a prosimian primate, a species of monkey and native only to Madagascar.
- The slow-moving two-toed sloths, tiny dwarf mongoose, South American acouchi and African rock hyrax are other unique features of the daytime exhibits.
- Mammalian introductions have occurred periodically in this region and include species such as agouti (Dasyprocta agouti), fallow deer (Dama dama) to provide game, the indian mongoose (Herpestes auropunctatus) and the inadvertent importation of rats (Rattus rattus, R. norvegicus). Guadeloupe
- The Talking Mongoose Case (event) (see all of The Talking Mongoose Case, no other writeups in this node) (event) by aneurin Everything2 New Writeups
- Instead of preying on the nocturnal rat, for instance, the diurnal mongoose turned its attention to native birds and reptiles, many of which appeared to decline in Caribbean and Hawaiian locales.
- On land penguins also have a number of enemies which include leopards, caraculs, kelp gulls and mongooses.