Rudyard Kipling’s classic collection, The Jungle Book, features the brave little mongoose, Rikki-Tikki-Tavi, who famously battles dangerous snakes. It’s easy to think this story is pure ...

Mongooses deployed on a small Japanese island to cull a population of venomous snakes have themselves been culled by the state, after the mammals insisted on eating the local endangered rabbits ...

Mongooses are a remarkable and fascinating group of small carnivores, with 25 species occurring in Africa and nine in Asia. They live within a wide variety of habitats, from open savannah to dense ...

The vast majority of expectant mongoose moms within a group give birth on the same night. The synchronous arrival of the tiny pups makes it impossible to know whose offspring belongs to which ...

The banded mongoose is also native to Africa and is mainly found south of the Sahara. They inhabit grasslands, woodlands, and rocky areas. They are small animals, weighing up to 52 ounces.

This baboon found itself at the wrong end of an angry mongoose family when he tried to steal their baby. The rare sighting was captured on camera by 57-year-old Charmaine Kritzinger, a wildlife ...

A family of mongooses are forced to stand up and fight off Africa's largest eagle in mid-air as it flies off with one of their friends.