But here's the twist: civets and mongooses are not the same animal, and they aren’t even in the same animal family. Civets belong to the family Viverridae, which includes other small, cat-like ...

The latter is a group of carnivores from Madagascar that includes the cougar-like fossa. Humans have long admired mongooses for the animals' ability to kill venomous snakes, including cobras and ...

These social animals keep tabs on aggressive members of the group ... In their experiment, the researchers played recordings of songs from specific dwarf mongooses to make it seem like those ...

So animals with intense conflict like this at their borders — as with the banded mongooses — would be expected to respond to neighbors with high aggression. "I would definitely expect to find ...

the Government could not prove that the mongooses had been imported. They were bought two years ago for $40 each from a reputable animal dealer; 2) both were males, which eliminated any chance of ...

Starting on Dec. 4, some species added — like mongoose and marbled crayfish ... but cannot import new animals after Dec. 4. For others still, different rules apply. For a subset of reptiles ...