She’s the authoritarian matriarchal warlord with a fart so powerful it strikes terror in the heart of honey badgers. She rolls with a posse that’s 30-strong, uses ...

Many people visit South Africa's Kruger National Park with hopes of seeing the "big five": lions, leopards, rhinos, elephants, and buffalos. But one of the vast park's most ferocious animals comes in ...

Animals are more eloquent than previously assumed. Even the monosyllabic call of the banded mongoose is structured and thus comparable with the vowel and consonant system of human speech. Behavioral ...

When two opposing mongoose "armies" decide to face off, the ensuing brawl rivals a human battle. Often, blood is shed as the winning pack isolates and converges on the lone male mongoose that dared to ...

Leptospirosis is the world's most common illness transmitted to humans by animals. It's a two-phase disease that begins with flu-like symptoms. If untreated, it can cause meningitis, liver damage, ...

Big-brained mammals such as humans and chimpanzees aren’t the only creatures that pass on traditions to their young. Even the tiny banded mongoose can pass down learned habits to younger generations, ...

"The motto of all the mongoose family is, 'Run and find out,'" author Rudyard Kipling explains in his 1894 book Rikki-Tikki-Tavi. In true mongoose fashion, then, we decided to investigate these ...

The animal kingdom has some rivalries that are as legendary as any human feud and one of the most intense is the age-old clash between the snake and the mongoose. Their encounters are rare but when ...

LIHUE, Hawaii (Island News) -- A live mongoose was captured in Lihue on Friday morning, as the animal is an invasive species on Kauai. The Kauai Invasive Species Committee (KISC) received reports of a ...

For a dwarf mongoose, a handstand is a crucial skill learned at an early age. “It’s funny to watch the youngsters trying to do it … almost as soon as they can walk,” says Lynda Sharpe, a behavioral ...