mongooses
- plural of mongoose.
Example Sentences
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In our romantic life, we more closely resemble these social, close-knit mongooses than we do our primate cousins, a "league table" of monogamy compiled by scientists suggests.
From BBC ● Dec. 10, 2025
On the course, elaborate tombs of the city's past rulers poke through tangled trees that are home to peacocks, troops of monkeys and mongooses.
From Barron's ● Oct. 18, 2025
Using a decade of life-history data from a wild population of dwarf mongooses, University of Bristol researchers found that pup survival rate actually increased when the cumulative threat of conflict with rival groups was greater.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 14, 2023
For the dwarf mongooses at Queen Elizabeth National Park in Uganda, the most intense power struggles occur between groups.
From Scientific American ● Apr. 15, 2022
The mongooses continue forward, oblivious to the aboatia’s hiding spot.
From "Kwame Crashes the Underworld" by Craig Kofi Farmer
