How To Use Mongoose In A Sentence
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Frankly, she held her nose and said it stank like the henhouse when a mongoose has spoiled the eggs.
HOMELAND AND OTHER STORIES
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Leopards, hyenas, jackals, sloth bears, cobras, pythons, mongooses and monitor lizards move silently through its forests.
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Frankly, I thought the mongoose was a made up mythical creature… until I saw one.
Why did the mongoose cross the road?
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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.
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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.
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The slow-moving two-toed sloths, tiny dwarf mongoose, South American acouchi and African rock hyrax are other unique features of the daytime exhibits.
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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
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The Talking Mongoose Case (event) (see all of The Talking Mongoose Case, no other writeups in this node) (event) by aneurin
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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.
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On land penguins also have a number of enemies which include leopards, caraculs, kelp gulls and mongooses.
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Fish owls, jungle cats, civets (a carnivore related to the mongoose), and even house cats are reported to eat them.
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The galliwasp is also killed by dogs, cats and mongooses, and by people who mistakenly consider it to be venomous.
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However, I think I would have used to word mongoose, as that was how I described what we were talking about.
Chicagojo Diary Entry
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'These mongooses may represent a separate subspecies from the one that exists in Kenya,' said Dr. De Luca of WCS 'Tanzania Program.
Archive 2006-12-01
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Mountain rhebuck, duiker, jackal, mongoose, porcupine and dassie now live in the Reserve.
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The possible ecological significance of the different activity time of the ruddy mongoose has not been studied.
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The pair compared data from studies covering 18 different species, including dwarf mongooses, meerkats, Florida scrub jays, western bluebirds, and Australian magpies.
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The main suspect to date is the civet cat, a cat-like mammal closely related to the mongoose.
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The Reserve is stocked with small game - blesbok, mountain reebok, duiker, klipspringer and steenbok, as well as the small creatures: mongoose, tortoise and genet.
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Mongooses, hedgehogs and tortoises, live happily at the koppies.
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Introduced predators such as rats, cats, dogs, foxes and mongooses are thought to have been responsible for about half of island bird extinctions.
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Dwarf mongooses mainly feed on insects like termites, locusts, beetles, grubs, larvae and spiders.
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The other, lantern-jawed and taciturn, replied: ‘mongoose’.
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That thing about the plural of the word mongoose, before we get to the real stuff, Doug in Connecticut says, "I once asked my father the correct plural of mongoose.
CNN Transcript Jun 15, 2004
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Young mambas are eaten by mongooses, and even adult mambas are eaten by the secretary bird and larger species of eagle.
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We have birds and mammals here such as the slender mongoose and large spotted genets that are not rare, but it's still nice to have them in a city like Johannesburg.
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In the lower forest and bamboo zone mammals include the giant forest hog Hylochoerus meinertzhageni, tree hyrax Dendrohyrax arboreus, white-tailed mongoose Ichneumia albicauda, elephant Loxodonta africana, black rhinoceros Diceros bicornis, suni Neotragus moschatus, black-fronted duiker Cephalophus nigrifrons and leopard Panthera pardus (which has also been seen in the alpine zone).
Mount Kenya National Park and National Forest, Kenya
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While watching Raf's thin frame, focused eyes, and slinky movements, I realized that he reminded me of a mongoose.
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Domestic dogs and cats can pick up the infection if exposed to wild animals with the disease such as foxes, wolves, jackals, skunks, mongooses, raccoons and bats.
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Several small mammals live in the park - genets, shrews, hedgehogs and mongooses.
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HANNA: But the binturong, Larry, is in the mongoose family.
CNN Transcript Dec 25, 2006
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Throughout its range in the western hemisphere, the mongoose is a pest; and the Biological Survey of the Department of Agriculture has done well in securing the enactment of a law peremptorily prohibiting the importation of any animals of that species into the United States or any of its colonies.
Our Vanishing Wild Life Its Extermination and Preservation
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We have birds and mammals here such as the slender mongoose and large spotted genets that are not rare, but it's still nice to have them in a city like Johannesburg.
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The mongoose is a small beast of prey of the Viverridæ family.
From Pole to Pole A Book for Young People
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Mongooses, hedgehogs and tortoises, live happily at the koppies.
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Other notable mammals include carnivores, such as leopard Panthera pardus, wild dog or dhole Cuon alpinus (VU), leopard cat Felis bengalensis, fishing cat F. viverrina (LR), Javan mongoose Herpestes javanicus and several civets, including binturong Arctictis binturong.
Ujung Kulon National Park and Krakatau Nature Reserve, Indonesia
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Yellow Mongoose dens are usually disused burrows left by other animals such as antbears or spring hares which the yellow mongoose then expand considerably.
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'We want them to attack us, so we can engage them and destroy them,' says one Special Forces soldier from the US firebase at Spin Boldak, who took part in the initial firefight that led to Operation Mongoose.
Robert Greenwald and Derrick Crowe: Turning in Circles in Afghanistan
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This work shows that five marsupials, two hedgehogs, a shrew, a mole, four mongoose, a raccoon, two mtistelids, and 15 rodents (including three sciurid and eight murid rodents) have some form of resistance to venom toxins.
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Some others like the wild pig, the palm civet, the common mongoose, the golden oriole, and the rat snake can survive even with little green cover and withstand disturbances.
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Mongoose, then, is a good play, worth watching for its inventive staging and hypnotic central performance.
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On a night drive near Mwambashi Camp, in the Lower Zambesi National Park, on our final evening we also spotlight a leopard, several smaller cats (servals and civets), zebra and a white-tailed mongoose.
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The Reserve is stocked with small game - blesbok, mountain reebok, duiker, klipspringer and steenbok, as well as the small creatures: mongoose, tortoise and genet.
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Virtually none of the small carnivorous mammals of Southeast Asia (cats, civets, mongooses, weasels) have crossed it from west to east on their own.
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The Reserve is stocked with small game - blesbok, mountain reebok, duiker, klipspringer and steenbok, as well as the small creatures: mongoose, tortoise and genet.
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Mountain rhebuck, duiker, jackal, mongoose, porcupine and dassie now live in the Reserve.
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More common are species such as agouti (Dasyprocta agouti), fallow deer (Dama dama) to provide game, the indian mongoose (Herpestes auropunctatus) and the inadvertent importation of the black or roof rat and the brown or Norway rat (Rattus rattus, R. norvegicus).
Leeward Islands dry forests
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The pair compared data from studies covering 18 different species, including dwarf mongooses, meerkats, Florida scrub jays, western bluebirds, and Australian magpies.
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Other notable mammals include carnivores, such as leopard Panthera pardus, wild dog or dhole Cuon alpinus (VU), leopard cat Felis bengalensis, fishing cat F. viverrina (LR), Javan mongoose Herpestes javanicus and several civets, including binturong Arctictis binturong.
Ujung Kulon National Park and Krakatau Nature Reserve, Indonesia
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Now and then the mongoose, useful as a destroyer of snakes and rats, may be caught sight of, with his long coarse fur, running across the road, or hunting along a fence, much in the same way as a weasel shows himself in England, although the mongoose is a good deal larger.
India and the Indians
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One of Three (which may be the father, son, or holy spirit, I haven't figured out which one) had this to say about the Fossa: It has retractable claws like a cat, walks on the soles of its feet like a wolverine, looks a bit like a jaguarundi, and has scent glands like a mongoose.
What In Tarnation Am I?
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The study of mongoose prey-killing techniques points to a highly efficient killing bite used on vertebrate prey, even in the least predaceous species.
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‘Compared to larger carnivores, the smaller species such as genets and mongooses are very poorly understood,’ said De Luca, ‘so one of our aims is to shed more light on this important and secretive group of animals.’
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Small carnivores such as mongoose and crows pose a threat to the night heron chicks.
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Is it what they call the mongoose, or monsoon, or something?
Hilda Wade, a Woman with Tenacity of Purpose
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Dwarf mongooses mainly feed on insects like termites, locusts, beetles, grubs, larvae and spiders.
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The Reserve is stocked with small game - blesbok, mountain reebok, duiker, klipspringer and steenbok, as well as the small creatures: mongoose, tortoise and genet.
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I knew of the Snake Dances in farthest Estwilde, where the mongoose is brought in to the last movement of the dance, where with nothing but quickness and brains and sharp teeth it goes up against the deadly ophidian to the music of pipe and drums.
Virginity
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All the animals had gathered there - giraffes, hippos, antelope, buffalo, warthogs, zebras, aardvarks, hyenas, mongooses, storks and weaver birds.
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There were mongoose, snakes and bandicoots (large rats).
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In its introduced range, in the absence of its two slightly larger congeners, as well as of other morphologically similar potential competitors, does the small Indian mongoose increase in size?
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With no other carnivores around, mongooses and civets became Madagascar's predators, and the fossa filled the hunting niche usually occupied by cats.
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All mongooses are members of a family of small to medium-sized carnivores called the Viverridae, which also includes civets and genets.
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Many small carnivorous marsupials live there, and some of them - six species of quolls and one phascogale - grow to about the size of civets and mongooses.
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All the animals had gathered there - giraffes, hippos, antelope, buffalo, warthogs, zebras, aardvarks, hyenas, mongooses, storks and weaver birds.
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Genetic testing has revealed that, regardless of appearances, the fossa is a close cousin of the mongoose, and a member of the viverrid family, which also includes meerkats, civets, and genets.
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“Why, a mongoose is a little animal we use for killing snakes.”
Little Journeys to the Homes of Great Reformers
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In Hawaii, cats and dogs as well as the imported mongoose have seriously affected nesting waterbirds and two seabirds - the dark-rumped petrel and Newell's shearwater, according to the National Biological Service.
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Their memories of the Kadena Karnival were especially vivid and borderline traumatic: the habu-mongoose fight, the
A Conversation with Sarah Bird, author of the novel The Flamenco Academy
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Many small carnivorous marsupials live there, and some of them - six species of quolls and one phascogale - grow to about the size of civets and mongooses [see photographs on opposite page].
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Only problem is that the mongoose is a diurnal (daytime) hunter, and rats are active at night (nocturnal).
Steve Steve in Hawai'i - The Panda's Thumb
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In Hawaii, cats and dogs as well as the imported mongoose have seriously affected nesting waterbirds and two seabirds - the dark-rumped petrel and Newell's shearwater, according to the National Biological Service.
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Mayura's mongoose mask and my panda hat.
