mongoose 的定义
plural mon·goos·es.
- a slender, ferretlike carnivore, Herpestes edwardsi, of India, that feeds on rodents, birds, and eggs, noted especially for its ability to kill cobras and other venomous snakes.
- any of several other animals of this genus or related genera.
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- Other oceanic crossings include mice to Australia and tenrecs, mongooses and hippos to Madagascar.
- When it comes to mating, the banded mongoose (Mungos mungo) likes to keep things in the family.
- So, why would a species like the banded mongoose favor breeding between relatives?
- Hope that an accentuated mongoose-step movement may crush the new enemy.
- Under the hedge of a garden somebody's tame mongoose is devouring the head of a cobra.
- Then the mongoose crunches up its head, eats a little of the body also if it is very hungry, and goes off to look for another.
- The first of these is the Indian mongoose, which is common in almost all parts of the great country from which it takes its name.
- The Egyptian mongoose is a rather larger animal, being about three feet in length from the head to the tip of the tail.