by persons could carry potential health risks. Head of Veterinary Public Health Dr. no provisions or regulations regarding the eating of mongoose. What kills mongoose? Snakes, hawks, marabou storks, leopards, and jackals are all predators of the mongoose. Snakes will kill a mongoose to protect themselves, but cobras and blackRead More →
A paper in BMJ Case Reports (Tumram et al 2012) describes a rather unusual and unfortunate situation. It’s about a fatal infection in a 55-year-old Indian woman who was bitten by a mongoose. She was bitten (unprovoked, it seems) on the leg by the mongoose while washing dishes. Are mongooseRead More →
Mongooses live in burrows and feed on small mammals, birds, reptiles, eggs, and occasionally fruit. A number of mongooses, especially those of the genus Herpestes, will attack and kill venomous snakes. They depend on speed and agility, darting at the head of the snake and cracking the skull with aRead More →
The mongoose species that live along the coast have been known to eat sea turtle eggs and even the eggs of certain sea birds. The Indian gray mongoose and the yellow mongoose are both known for their ability to fight and kill various deadly snake species such as cobras. HowRead More →
With virtually no natural predator in Hawaii, the mongoose population increased exponentially, from the original seventy-two to the thousands we have today. Why are there so many mongooses in Hawaii? Like so many invasive species that now run amuck on islands around the world, mongooses were intentionally introduced to Hawaii.Read More →
Mongooses evolved in Africa in two distinct groups (genera), one of which, including the meerkats, stayed on in Africa. … It’s been believed that the mongoose is immune to cobra venom, but this is not exactly true. It does have some resistance to the venom, but it simply avoids beingRead More →