Mongooses stray into our house now and then, and they always move too swiftly to be captured on camera. But the one I startled this morning was in the Olympic class, even by mongoose standards. For a blink of an eye, Guilty Mongoose and Bemused Human faced off across the kitchen floor. Then a brown streak went past me, veered towards the verandah and was gone before even the thought of getting my camera had properly formed in my head. The cheetah, at 70 mph, is supposed to be the fastest land animal, but this little fellow seemed to be doing about ninety when he rounded the bend.
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Cheetahs and mongooses are my two favorite animals. I would like to see them race.
"The cheetah, at 70 mph, is supposed to be the fastest land animal, but this little fellow seemed to be doing about ninety when he rounded the bend."
So would you, if confronted by a poltroon, some forty times your size.
I've caught mongooses at our ancestral house in Kerala. They look remarkably sharp. Like they're aware of everything around them. Unlike some people.
(Read: me)
OMG. vw: puchka.
Cool-looking animal (and mongoose is a great word).
I was going to say the only mammals that trespass where I live are mice but I realized I once found a bat inside.
I have never seen a mongoose. =(
@Saha: A cheetah, a mongoose and a greyhound. Now that would be a race.
@arzkiya: Is 'poltroon' your new favourite word?
@Priyanka: Your descriptions (of both mongooses and you) are spot on.
@Tommy: Wow. Bats are as cool as mongooses, if not cooler. We get cats, mice and mongooses.
@Shrabasti: You should go to the zoo for that, if not for anything else.
Why don't your post headings and contents make any collective sense? Or am I just not getting it?
WV: 'noxalien' - that would probably be one way of describing you.
there is one mammal with a double i (ii) and one with single. The one with single is cuter. both are mongooses and look similar. How do youknow that the one that keeps coming into your house is the one with the double i???
@IP1: They will make perfect sense if you google them.
@IP2: Those are just two different spellings. Both refer to the Indian Grey Mongoose.
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