Indian gray mongoose

mammal
Also known as: Herpestes edwardsi, Indian mongoose

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mongooses

  • dwarf mongoose (Helogale parvula)
    In mongoose

    …and southern Europe and the Indian gray mongoose (H. edwardsi), made famous as Rikki-tikki-tavi in Rudyard Kipling’s The Jungle Books (1894 and 1895). The meerkat (Suricata suricatta) is also a member of the mongoose family. The colloquial term mongoose may also include Malagasy mongooses—a group of five species found on…

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  • dwarf mongoose (Helogale parvula)
    In mongoose: Natural history

    … (Herpestes javanicus) but also the Indian gray mongoose, were introduced to numerous islands, including Mafia Island (off the coast of East Africa), Mauritius, and those of Croatia, Hawaii, and Fiji. Originally intended to help control rodents and snakes, these introductions were disastrous, because the

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