herpesidae-imel

Mongooose

Where do they live?:monguese live in Africa, Southren Asia, The Liberian peninsula, and were introduced to a few islands known as the western indies and hawii to deal with rodent promblems. More specefic places are treetops ,burrows,, and some times abanded burrows.

Movement: they have long bodies and short but vey powerful legs. the mongoose is known for their great aglity.

Food: the mongoose is an onivore which means it eats meat and plants. The mongoose likes to eat small animals like small rodents, birds reptiles,frogs,insects,and worms. it eats its prey with sharpo teeth and claws and if it finds an egg it will throw it at a hard object to brake it.

Reproduction: The mongoose can have one litter at a time but if neceray it can have another one of the first litter gets hurt or dies.gestation is 8 to 9 weeks long.and they can grow up to 3 feet long. While others like the dwarf mongoose only grows up to 7 inches.the matureing period is unknown.

Classsification: Kingdom:animalia Pylum:chordata Class:mammalia Order:carnivora Suborder:faliformia Family:herpesidae Genus:helogalr Species:paruvale

Adaptions the mongoose has EX. 1 Diet if there are no small animals the mongoose will go eat fruit nuts and seeds instead. EX. 2 Home If a mongoose finds an abonded burrow from a diffrent animal it will glady make that its new home. EX. 3 Movement and predators to fight predators the moongoose has strong legs that make it quick and have great agility so it can easily fight off predators.

FAMILY

Charateristics 1 A small midean size 2 Long narrow bodies 3 Often bushy tails 4 Short powerfull legs

Other animals in family. 1 Long nosed cusimonse 2 Yellow mongoose 3 Dwarf mongosse 4 Meerkat

Pictures of monguese

http/:www.animalwebguide.com/mongoose.htm

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