Awesome Mongooses by Tanner
Yummy ,Yummy Tummy Attack! Hmmmm yummy good, do you want to know what I eat? Mongooses basically eat, insects, crabs, earthworms, lizards, snakes, chickens, small rodents, fruits, [so that means it’s a omnivore] nuts, and bird eggs. To eat the bird’s egg, they throw it at some thing and it cracks open. I feel bad for the little birdies in the eggs. It’s the way of life. I want to tell you something, OK, did you know the ring tailed mongoose eat lemurs?
OK, you’re in a forest. You see a weasel/ferret animal. Wait; is it a ferret, or a weasel? Oh yeah, it’s a mongoose! Cool! Yeah, right I know. Well, this article is about mongooses. So read on! Wait, sorry, I sound stupid, mmmuuuttterrr mmmuutter, what ever , just READ THE ARTICLE!
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Where do I live? Hard question, well in the next few sentences your question will be answered. Mongooses live in some parts of Africa, Europe, Asia, and some of the Caribbean Islands. If you live there, say “Hi” to a mongoose for me. The ring-tailed mongoose lives in wet/dry forests. Paws Claws All animals have homes, well the They’re fast, slim, small, mongoose basically lives in a and have sharp claws and teeth. burrow, but sometimes it lives in What are these animals? If you other animals’ burrows. The ring guessed a weasel you’re wrong, it’s tailed mongoose doesn’t live/hunt a mongoose! Every animal has fur, with any other ring tailed well except naked mole rats and mongooses. Some of its neighbors reptiles; the mongoose usually has are, ring tailed lemurs, collared either black, grey, and brown lemurs, tenrecs, fossas, the smallgrizzled fur. It has a big bushy tail toothed civet, and the broad striped that can be as long as its body! and brown mongoose. If it’s Amazing isn’t it? The ring-tailed ‘happy’ on a sunny day, the dwarf mongoose is 2 feet long and 8.5 cm mongoose in the morning will lay [including tail] and it makes lots of in the grass or a log. It’s usually not sounds, like it makes a frog whistle seen in stormy weather, so I guess to keep its family keeps together. it’s one of those ‘happy’ kinds of When hunting it mews like a cat. mongooses. When it’s fighting it shrieks and Prey Day growls. If it’s alarmed it moans, unlike humans. Mongooses have Run aahhh! Oh it’s you, I’m four legs but some times it stands running from one of my predators, well on its hind legs. Unlike cats, let’s learn some of them. The mongooses can’t retract their claws. mongooses’ main predators physically The Banded mongoose has a big are, humans, [this is because we head, and little small ears. sometimes destroy its home] the small Indian civet, and wild cats and dogs. Both the dwarf and banded mongoose hunt in groups of 5 to 20. The yellow mongoose usually hunts in groups of 50.
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