a mongoose in a life - and - death battle with a cobra.
The small Indian mongoose, reaching no more than a foot or two inheight, was originally brought to Puerto Rico and the Hawaiian islandsto protect sugar cane fields from rat and snake damage.
Because now it's the mongoose who holds the winning card!
Indian mongoose is popularly used to fight and kill venomous snakes, because of their rapid reactions and thick coat.
Who is the man code-named mongoose?
I hit a rogue so hard with mongoose bite that his energy stopped regenerating.
The meerkat is in fact a mongoose.
Often a big mongoose would emerge from the thick bushes, its red nose high in the air and its sharp eyes watching every movement around it.
A set of unbelievable pictures were taken in southern India: a King cobra and a grey mongoose clashed in classic battle in the wild.
Seated on the back of a recumbant snow leopard in lalitasana, with jewel-spitting mongoose in left hand, right hand raised (originally to hold a victory banner), an offering bowl of jewels in front of him, all on a lotus base, remnants of pigment, unsealed.
North African mongoose; in ancient times thought to devour crocodile eggs.
At Kamarpukur I have seen the mongoose living in its hole up in the wall.