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Mongoose - snake conflicts
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by Tigersnake on October 7, 2008
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I have seen mongoose vs snake conflicts where the snake is mostly a cobra in the animal channels....I wonder how a mongoose would kill a venomous snake which is not a cobra.....why I ask this because cobras strike with a downward forward movement and mongoose uses its recovery period to catch its head...what does it do when it encounter something like a viper or a mamba or something like that.....To add a point I haven't seen any conflicts recorded between a mongoose and a non-cobra,non-venomous snake in any channel or in front of my eyes
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by pitbulllady on October 7, 2008
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I have seen a wildlife documentary in which a pack of banded Mongooses, which are highly social animals, ganged up on a large Puff Adder and killed it and ate it. On the Animal Planet series, "Meerkat Manor", one of the Meerkats got tagged by a Puff Adder, and survived, although it was sick for a long time. Considering the size of a Meerkat, that's pretty remarkable. I don't know if the snake just did not inject a full dose of venom, or if these little critters do have some natural immunity to the venom, but in either case, it was touch and go for awhile, so it's obviously not complete immunity, if any exists at all. Meerkats, by the way, ARE Mongooses.
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by jared on October 9, 2008
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LOL Mongoose, they were introduced to some carribean Islands to eradicate lanceheads, and they were all killed. Mongoose rely on the fact that vertebrea in cobras necks twist when they hood forcing them to strike on an almost perfect angle exposing the back of the neck and head to the mongoose when they miss, the weasel takes advantage, breaking the cobras neck. Smart cobras no not to hood, and bite in any direction, that is also why the mongoose have problems with vipers who strike more in a "bubble" than like cobras on center line. hope it helps,
Jared
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