Hello buddies, hope 2019 is going rocking for all of you, make a promise that at least one wildlife visit you will do in this year. Let this year be of wilderness, we need to save our wildlife at any cost to ensure our coming generation stay healthy with an appropriate environment.
My Saturday/Sunday challenge is always to finalize the topic, today, when I looked at my portfolio one of the pictures took me to the childhood days, it reminded me of a story which I used to heard many times or maybe we must have seen on television. Guess what it was the story of Snake and Mongoose, Saap Nevle ki ladai. This memory forced me to write on Mongoose to take you to memory lane as well. I am sure all of us are aware of the story of a mongoose but not aware of the quality of this litter creature so let me move to the next section to provide you with unique information.
Something Unique
Mongoose is the popular English name for 29 of the 34 species in the 14 genera of the family Herpestidae, which are small feliform carnivorans native to southern Eurasia and mainland Africa. The other five species (all African) in the family are the four kusimanses in the genus Crossarchus, and the species Suricata suricatta commonly called meerkat in English.
The word "mongoose" is likely derived from the Marathi name muṅgūs pronounced as mʊŋɡuːs and ultimately from the Telugu name muṅgisa or Kannada muṅgisi.
They are adept at such tasks due to their agility, thick coats, and specialized acetylcholine receptors, which make it not fully immune, but relatively tolerant of cobra venom. Mongooses are one of four known mammalian species with mutations in the nicotinic acetylcholine receptor that protect against snake venom. Pigs, honey badgers, hedgehogs, and mongooses all have modifications to the receptor pocket that prevents the snake venom α-neurotoxin from binding.
Isn’t it unique? Of course, it is, I am sure no one is aware of such a unique ability of small wonder. This is how Mongoose can tackle poisonous snakes, let see some other facts of a little one.
Interesting facts about mongooses
The mongoose is a small animal but an excellent hunter, with keen senses of smell, sight and hearing, and remarkable reflexes
Mongooses are generally terrestrial mammals, but some are semi-aquatic, and others are at home in the treetops
Mongooses live from 6 to 10 years in the wild and up to 20 years in captivity
The smallest mongoose is a common dwarf mongoose. It grows from 18 to 28 centimeters in length and weighs 210 to 350 grams. While the largest mongoose is a white-tailed mongoose, it has a head-and-body length of 53–71 centimeters and a tail length of 40–47 centimeters and weighs about 5 kilograms
The Indian gray mongoose and others are well
known for their ability to fight and kill venomous snakes, particularly cobras
Mongooses are carnivores (meat-eaters). They eat
rodents, birds, frogs, insects, eggs.
I am sure you will be delighted to know unknown diary
of Mongoose, do visit DSLR section to recall your memory
A Message of the Day
Save Wildlife. Save Earth.
Protect our wetland to keep our city pollution level intact, degradation
of wilderness will create incurable problems in future
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