From Rudyard Kipling’s Rikki-Tikki-Tavi to real-life wildlife encounters, tales of mongooses bravely confronting venomous snakes have captured imaginations for generations. While these stories seem ...

The rivalry between snakes and mongooses has fascinated people for centuries and has been immortalized in literature, idioms, and folklore. This natural conflict, unlike human rivalries that stem from ...

In St. Louis two lawyers have put their skill at the disposal of two rodents—a common or Egyptian mongoose and a slightly larger water mongoose. The lawyers are Cleveland Alexander Newton, one-time ...