. Brehm's Life of animals : a complete natural history for popular home instruction and for the use of schools. Mammals; Animal behavior. THE MUNGO. Among th distinguished becaus Mungo. order to kill him, for the animal has a wonderful tenacity of life and if he be only wounded he is sure to escape. French naturalists say that captive Ichneumons are easily domesticated, know their owner's voice and will follow him about like Dogs. But they are very restless creatures and cause annoyance by the persistence with which they drag portable arti- cles all over the house and upset everything. In one
. Brehm's Life of animals : a complete natural history for popular home instruction and for the use of schools. Mammals; Animal behavior. THE MUNGO. Among th distinguished becaus Mungo. order to kill him, for the animal has a wonderful tenacity of life and if he be only wounded he is sure to escape. French naturalists say that captive Ichneumons are easily domesticated, know their owner's voice and will follow him about like Dogs. But they are very restless creatures and cause annoyance by the persistence with which they drag portable arti- cles all over the house and upset everything. In one respect they are use- ful. A house that harbors an Ichneumon is secure from Rats and Mice, for he pursues these rodents with indefatigable zeal. When he has caught one, he runs with it into a dark corner and expresses his ability to take care of it himself by grunts and grumbling sounds. The Mungo Mungooses and resemble each Its Habits, other in their shape and mostly also in their behavior. The de- scription of the Ichneu- mon m i g h t, therefore, serve our purpose, if there were not a few others deserving of mention. The species representing Pharaoh's Rat in India is the Mungo {Herpestes mungo). It is much smaller than the Ichneumon, its body being from sixteen to twenty inches long, and its tail nearly the same length. Its long, coarse hair is gray, with a white band close to the tip of each hair. victory in such encounters. The natives believe that when he has been bitten by a Snake he digs up a plant or very bitter root, known as Manguswail, eats it, and instantly recovers, so that he is able to resume his fight with the Snake. Even exact observers assure us that there is some foundation to this story, inasmuch as the Mungo,. {Herpestes fascial'u often domesticated in Africa and becomes ilso by the stripes or bands from which it derives uch attached to the house as the domestic Cat. when bitten and exhausted, runs away, looks for some plants with which he rehabilitates hi
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