mongooses in English

noun
1
a small carnivorous mammal with a long body and tail and a grizzled or banded coat, native to Africa and Asia.
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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1. In Rudyard Kipling's The Jungle Book, the author correctly dismisses the idea of mongooses ingesting herbs to combat poison as old folklore.

2. Family Eupleridae (the "Malagasy carnivorans") includes fossa, falanouc, Malagasy civet and Malagasy mongooses, all of which are restricted to the island of Madagascar.

3. Bandboxy bandcenter bandeau bandeaus: bandeaux banded banded adder banded anteater banded anteaters banded gecko banded krait banded mongoose banded mongooses banded palm civet: Literary usage of Bandboxes

4. Pigs, honey badgers, mongooses, and hedgehogs all have mutations in the nicotinic acetylcholine receptor that prevent the snake venom α-neurotoxin from binding, though those mutations developed separately and independently.

5. In 1993, Géraldine Veron and François Catzeflis published a DNA hybridization study suggesting that the fossa was more closely related to mongooses (family Herpestidae) than to cats or civets.

6. Like Wolves, Aardvarks tend to circle the player while using Defense before aggro and attacking.; Sometimes notices other animals, such as Gnu and Mongooses, and circle the animal with Defense loaded for some time.; When any Aardvark (excluding the field …