Jeanette's Wild World of Nature: Herpestids

[Jeanette X]

Given the number of boring and/or pointless threads we've been seeing lately, I decided to make another nature thread about cute furry things to entertain you.
http://www.spies.com/~sullivan/stories/Africa2000/images/marsh_mongoose_big.jpg
Marsh Mongoose (Atilax paludinosus)
The marsh mongoose lives in Africa south of the Sahara desert. It is a primarily aquatic animal, and has a very omniverous diet. It is an excellent swimmer, and when it wants to hide, it submerges, leaving only the tip of it's nose above water for breathing. It has been observed smashing snails, crabs, and eggs against rocks from a standing position. They are highly territorial, and will sometimes do a handstand to rub their anal glands against raised objects to mark their territory. They will also growl and bark if threatened. If a marsh mongoose wants to catch a bird, it lies on it's back as if it were sunbathing and shows it's pale, pink anal area, which has a striking contrast to it's dark fur. This induces birds to approach and try to peck at it's anus, upon which the mongoose kills the birds and eats them. If it is cornered or upset, it ejects jets of foul brown fluid from it's anal sacs. It is also partial to fruit. They are usually solitary.
http://www.ecologychannel.com/gallery/mong3.JPG
Yellow Mongoose (Cynictis penicillata) checking out his surroundings.
http://jameswarwick.bn2web.com/photo/Yellow-mongoose-on-alert.jpg
Another yellow mongoose.
http://jameswarwick.bn2web.com/photo/Yellow-mongoose-snarling.jpg
Yellow mongoose snarling.
The yellow mongoose lives in southern Africa, and it prefers dry open country. They live in colonies of 8-20 individuals in complex, permanent underground structures which are often shared with ground squirrels and suricates, and have special locations within the burrows for defecation. At any sign of danger, an alarm is sounded and the entire colony retreats into the burrows. They are usually quiet, but will growl if threatened, scream during fights, and purr. They are able to attack and eat poisonous snakes and scorpions. Like dogs, it is thought that the tail may play a role in communication, and they also have a hierachy structure within their groups. They cannot see distances well, so they move their heads from side to side to judge it.

More later.

[Alphonse]

Mongoose, :love .

[CaptainBubba]

Cy-ute. :love

I hate making one word posts. :(

[Rongi]

hehe, herpes :o

[Rev. Danno]

JeanX,
What can you tell us about the Majestic Badger?
I Love badgers, As a child when I grew up I either wanted to be Batman, or a Badger...
My Favorite Mascot is Bucky the Badger...
PLEASE WRITE A TREAD ABOUT BADGERS...
http://www.badgers.org/images/gallery_draw_cartoon.jpg

[punkgrrrlie10]

I like the susinct pina colada one.

[Big Papa Goat]

I think the Mustelid thread had badgers in it. A goat or osterich thread is in order though :posh

[Jeanette X]

Goat is correct. Most badgers (with the exception of stink-badgers, which are members of the skunk family) are mustelids, which means they are members of the weasel family. You can find them in my mustelid thread:
http://www.i-mockery.net/viewtopic.php?t=4401&start=0
And I will do a goat thread next time.

[Cap'n Crunch]

hehe, herpes :o

I thought the same thing when I saw this thread. :(

[The One and Only...]

*Loads 12 gauge*

This is gonna be my :meat.

















j/k.

[Rev. Danno]

If i didn't hate emoticons... I would so do that one with the heart eyes for JeanX...
If you haven't read the last Thread she did (I just finished)... READ IT!!! :love ok I just used it... It shows you how great the last hread was... and it had BADGERS in it...
I once saw a Badger in person, true storey...
Back in '83 my family and I were in Glacier Natinal park in Montana, we got out of our beat up Toyota Land cruiser to have a nice picnic, I thought I saw a cat under the car... No it was a Badger coming out of it's hole... Anyway it run out from under the car, we all got back into the land cruiser, and left our food on the table... We got to watch a badger enjoy egg salad sanwiches, & beef jerky...
Coolest camping trip ever, also got to watch a movie on Grizzly bear saety that gave me nightmares for 3 years...

[Jeanette X]

Aw shucks. Thank you all for the compliments. I'm glad you enjoy my threads. :)
http://www.botany.uwc.ac.za/Envfacts/fynbos/images/mongoose2.gif
Cape Grey Mongoose (Galerella pulverulenta)
Sorry about the poor quality of this picture. It was the only one I could find. :/
The cape grey mongoose lives in southern Africa, and is solitary.
http://members.lycos.nl/KeesBakker/pics/slendermg.jpg
Slender Mongoose (Galerella sanguinea)
The slender mongoose can be found in most parts of Africa. It tends to live either in pairs, or alone, and is more arboreal than other mongooses. They climb trees like squirrels, and catch birds in them. In fact, it is often mobbed and divebombed by birds because it poses a threat. It will freeze at the first sign of danger, and dive for cover if threatened.

[Perndog]

BUMP.

You owe me. Bigtime.

[camacazio]

The slender mongoose looks a lot like a squirrel.

[MisSFiT]

I think they all look like Ferrets.

Here's a little fact about Ferrets:
-They shit in corners.
-They smell reall bad.

[Jeanette X]

Thank you Perndog. You are a sweetie. :)
http://www.columbia.edu/itc/cerc/danoff-burg/invasion_bio/inv_spp_summ/Herpestes_javanicus.JPG
Javan mongoose a.k.a Small Indian Mongoose
(Herpestes javanicus)
Please forgive the white sides on the picture. It was the only decent one I could find. :/
The Javan mongoose is native to India and southeast Asia, and were introduced in the New World as a means of controlling rats and snakes on sugarcane plantations. However, the population of the mongoose quickly got out of control and they became serious pests, and have been the cause the extinction of at least 12 native species. :( They are very playful and will practice mutal grooming.

[Rez]

i enjoy these threads.

[Crimson Ghost]

What kind of mongoose was Riki Tiki Tavi?

Someone has to know the story of Riki Tiki Tavi.

[Snatchtastic]

Hellz yeah, Riki Tiki Tavi washed up in the Gardens of some dudes house after a rainstorm and they fed him bananas and put him in a loin cloth. And then theyre were two EEEEEEEEVIL cobras named NAAG and NAGAINA and they wanted to kill the family and raise COBRAS :eek Then Riki Tiki loved the family so much he killed the family of Cobras and lived happily evar aftar forever.

Riki Tiki should have slashed the Muskrats face and worn his skin as a suit.

[Jeanette X]

I'm damned if I know what kind of mongoose Riki-tiki-tavi was supposed to be. I don't think they ever actually tell you in the story. :/
http://www.pjc.cc.fl.us/sctag/extra/Cusi1.JPG
Cusimanse (Crossarchus obscurus)
The cusimanse is a very small, diurnal mongoose from west Africa, and they wander through their territories constantly, sometimes taking shelter under fallen logs, or digging their own burrows. They live in groups of 10-24 members, usually compromised of small family units. It's name is also spelled with a K.

I have also added some new information to the marsh mongoose, yellow mongoose, and slender mongoose entries, so be sure to look at those again as well.

[executioneer]

he's whatever kind lives in india :/

-willie

[Jeanette X]

http://www.terrambiente.org/fauna/Mammiferi/carnivora/herpestidae/images/galidia.jpg
Malagasy Ring-Tailed Mongoose (Galidia elegans)
This mongoose is located only in Madagascar. It lives in humid forests. It digs burrows, and it swims. It is less social than most mongoose species, usually living alone or in pairs.

[camacazio]

Another animal I can add to my "list of things in Madagascar that I like."

So far, all I have is a mongoose and a chameleon. :(

[Anonymous]

http://www.americazoo.com/goto/index/mammals/animals/298b.jpg
Egyptian Mongoose (Herpestes ichneumon)
The Egyptian mongoose is diurnal, gregarious, and polygynous. The name "ichneumon" means tracker on Greek, which refers to the fact that this mongoose relies on its sense of smell to locate prey. They tend to forage alone, and this led many people to believe that they were solitary mongooses. They are commonly seen in groups of 3-7 individuals. Each family consists of a male, 2-3 females, and their recent offspring, along with some offspring from previous litters that had not dispersed. They have established foraging paths, latrines, eating and sleeping sites, and anal-gland marking areas. The male tends to be more or less solitary, but the females have strong social bonds with each other and their young. The females take turns babysitting the juveniles as the other females went foraging. The male does babysit but rarely interacts with the young. The male is more tolerant of his female offspring than the males, and it is often the males that disperse first, and the females who disperse later, if at all.

The Egyptian mongoose produces only one litter a year, but is able to produce another if they loose the first litter. The young are weaned at 4-8 weeks old, and forage with their mother until they are 4 months old. Male offspring will disperse as early as 4-6 months, sometimes staying up to a year, while the female offspring will stay longer, even permanently.




You see, Jean? Anyone can do what you do.

[Jeanette X]

You see, Jean? Anyone can do what you do.
Get out of my thread, asshole! This is MY thing, I thought of it first, GET OUT! >:

















I'm not special anymore. :tear

[Ihach]

youd be more special if i got my goddamn tiger thread >:

[Protoclown]

http://www.yojoe.com/filecard/88joes/muskrat.jpg

[Evil Robot]

[center:7f9ec24c81]I'm not special anymore[/center:7f9ec24c81]

[Jeanette X]

youd be more special if i got my goddamn tiger thread >:

I already did a thread about wild cats! JEEZ!

[Jeanette X]

youd be more special if i got my goddamn tiger thread >:

I already did a thread about wild cats! JEEZ!

http://rosswarner.com/mong2.jpg
Dwarf Mongoose (Helogale parvula)
http://www.whipsnade.co.uk/picturelibrary/jpeg200/2m/2mongoose24.jpg
Baby dwarf mongooses.
http://www.pjc.cc.fl.us/sctag/extra/cupgoose.jpg
Dwarf mongoose in a mug.

The dwarf mongoose lives in Ethiopia, Angola, and South Africa, and is the smallest African carivore. They have a complicated social group in which an older female is the dominant, and her mate is the second dominant. All females are dominant over males. The dominant female and her mate are the only breeders in the group, nevertheless, other females will nurse her babies and care for them. They often use termite mounds as dens, lookout posts, and sources of food. They primarily eat insects, but they have been known to kill and eat snakes in a group effort. They break open bird eggs to eat by holding the egg between their paws and throwing them between their back feet onto a rock. They hunt in semi-nomadic packs and vocalize with whistles and twittering noises, and will growl when angered. They are watchful for predators, and have a complex system of vigilance in which they make different vocalizations for different predators to warn the pack and they relieve each other of guard duty in a regular sequence.

Dwarf mongooses have an interesting symbiotic relationship with a couple species of hornbills in eastern Kenya. In this relationship, hornbills give out warning calls when a predatory bird is in close proximity (even if it is a predator to just the mongooses). Since hornbills eat the same food as mongooses, they benefit from the relationship because the mongoose does all the foraging. Hornbills rarely compete for food with the mongooses and will usually submit to them anyhow. The hornbills and dwarf mongooses wait for each other to begin foraging; if no mongooses are present, the hornbill will call down the den to wake them up. If no hornbills are present, the mongoose will display stress and decreased efficiency of foraging (Postanowicz). (http://www.bio.davidson.edu/people/vecase/Behavior/Spring2003/rizi/SC.htm)

[Pliers the Goron King]

HERPESTIDS? THEY LOOK LIKE MY PENIS ON DRUGS :boot

[The One and Only...]

One thought my penis was a snake.

[Jeanette X]

HERPESTIDS? THEY LOOK LIKE MY PENIS ON DRUGS
Does your penis bite? :(

[Suck 'n' Fuck]

You forgot about Pumbaa.

[Jeanette X]

You forgot about Pumbaa.

I haven't even gotten to the meerkats yet and already I'm getting Lion King jokes?

[camacazio]

Pumbaa was the wart hog.

[Jeanette X]

I know! I'm just saying that...fuck it, nevermind. >:

[Jeanette X]

I have no mongoose for you in this post, I'm just adding this so I don't lose the thread again. :/

[Anonymous]

http://www.americanoceans.org/mammal/manatee.jpg
Manatee (Trichechus manatus)
Large, seal-like body that tapers to a powerful flat tail. Two agile forelimbs with three to four toenails on each, which act like arms to help the manatee maneuver in shallow water, grasp and move food toward their mouths, and act like flippers during swimming. Thick and wrinkled skin with a rough texture - a bit jiggly under the neck and arms. Their skin reacts to touch, as their bodies are very muscular - contracting and changing shape slightly when scratched or tickled. Powerful upper lips which articulate to help maneuver food or dig through sediment.

Gentle and slow-moving. Most of the time is spent eating vegetation (100-150 lbs. per day), resting, and traveling. On average manatees can travel about 40 to 50 miles a day, sometimes farther. Chessie, the famed manatee rescued from the cold waters of the Chesapeake Bay and returned to Florida, was tagged with a locating device which showed he traveled as far as Rhode Island during hot summer months.



Let the thread go, Jean.

[Jeanette X]

Fuck you. People enjoy my animal threads. >:

[Anonymous]

To quote Austin Powers, "WHO ARE THESE PEOPLE!?"

[Jeanette X]

Read the first page of this thread. And go to the mustelids thread and see what people said about it. >: