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The Indian grey mongoose is often kept as a pet to keep dwellings free from rats and other pests. [16] The Indian grey mongoose is the state animal of Chandigarh. [17] The species is protected in India, but an illegal trade in hair for the purposes of making of paint brushes and shaving brushes continues, and this is one of its most significant ...
The Indian Tamil devotional film Padai Veetu Amman shows Tamil actor Vinu Chakravarthy changing himself into a mongoose by using his evil tantric mantra, to fight the goddess Amman. However, the mongoose finally dies at the hands of the goddess. Mongoose species are prohibited to be kept as pets in the United States. [62]
Herpestes palustris proposed by R. K. Ghose in 1965 was an adult male mongoose collected in a swamp on the eastern fringe of Kolkata, India. [4] The small Indian mongoose was later classified in the genus Herpestes; all Asian mongooses are now classified the genus Urva. [5]
Four mongooses (clockwise from top left): meerkat (Suricata suricatta), yellow mongoose (Cynictis penicillata), Indian grey mongoose (Urva edwardsii), and common slender mongoose (Herpestes sanguinea) Herpestidae is a family of mammals in the order Carnivora, composed of the mongooses and the meerkat. A member of this family is called a ...
"Rikki-Tikki-Tavi" is a short story in the 1894 short story collection The Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling about adventures of a valiant young Indian grey mongoose. [1] It has often been anthologized and published several times as a short book.
Small Indian mongoose, (U. auropunctata) (Hodgson, 1836) [40] Indian grey mongoose (U. edwardsii) ... Chital male with two females in Kanha National Park.
Species: Urva edwardsii (Indian grey mongoose / നാടൻ കീരി [ edit ] Species: Urva fusca ( Indian brown mongoose / തവിടൻ കീരി )
Rikki-Tikki-Tavi (Indian grey mongoose) Nag and Nagaina (Indian cobras) – Nag is the Hindi word for "cobra". Darzee – Darzee means "tailor" in Hindi. Chuchundra (Asian house shrew, called a muskrat in the story) – his name is derived from "chuchunder", a term used for his species in India. Karait (common krait)