Talk:Javan mongoose

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Scientific name
Please someone with expert knowledge check out and add the synonymy. This critter is far too often referred to as H. auropunctatus to leave it out. Correct on Mongoose page as necessary. Thanks. Dysmorodrepanis 02:30, 26 September 2006 (UTC)
 * ITIS (cached copy) says H. auropunctatus is a junior synonym. MSW server didnt seem to be responding. Shyamal 16:14, 26 September 2006 (UTC)

Merged
Went ahead and merged H. javanicus into this. Shyamal 16:07, 26 September 2006 (UTC)

great cool i dont care

lmao^ — Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.54.161.73 (talk) 00:39, 14 March 2019 (UTC)

A few details
This species is universally referred to by the common name "small Indian mongoose" in scientific literature. Silly, I know, since it's found so widely throughout Asia. But perhaps it would be wise to move this page to another one with the title "small Indian mongoose"?

I've removed the line that said that this species is the basis of Rikki Tikki Tavi. I think Kipling was surely referring to an Indian gray mongoose (H. edwardsii), which is twice as big and is the champion snake-fighting mongoose in India. Eggheads-anonymous 20:11, 17 February 2007 (UTC)Warren Hays, PhD
 * MSW3 lists it as "Small Asian Mongoose", and it can reasonably claim authority for common names. However, that doesn't make it 100% correct, as I've contacted some of the authors of MSW3 in the past and sometimes they've recanted. - UtherSRG (talk) 13:33, 18 February 2007 (UTC)
 * Kipling was principally using references to Central and Northern India such as notes from Robert Armitage Sterndale. The species found there commonly is the Small Mongoose. It is only in southern India that H. edwardsii is commoner. Shyamal 12:10, 24 February 2007 (UTC)

I don't appreciate your removing what I wrote about Rikki-Tikki-Tavi. I'm through wasting my time on this website. If you read and understood the story you'd know that it's unlikely Kipling was referring to a large, powerful mongoose; the whole drama of the story was based on Rikki fighting against the odds -- two snakes much more powerful than he was. His being a small mongoose (and winning anyway) added greatly to the dramatic impact. (But then I'm a literary type, not a scientist.) —Preceding unsigned comment added by 70.22.231.89 (talk) 16:45, 20 March 2009 (UTC)

Photo checks needed
The photographs may actually be of H. edwardsii (the captions actually express the doubt as well) which are said to be separable based on the dark feet. Shyamal (talk) 02:29, 18 April 2009 (UTC)
 * Agreed. I've been taking photographs of mongoose in Hawaii all week, and they look nothing like the ones in this article.  FWIW, this is what they look like (not my photo). Viriditas (talk) 09:54, 12 July 2009 (UTC)

Introduction to the island of Mljet
According to this article (written in Croatian), 11 specimens (7 male and 4 female) were introduced in August 25th 1910 on the island of Mljet. The purpose was to eradicate the population of Vipera ammodytes. Unfortunately, after doing that they started eradicating pretty much everything else. --- Martin (talk) 11:51, 30 April 2011 (UTC)

What kind of animals is this considered to be?
A reptile? - the article doesn't say. Mercy11 (talk) 16:50, 30 July 2013 (UTC)

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 * Small Asian Mongoose area.png

Hawai'i
@BhagyaMani, the first citation I used was from the Hawaii Invasive Species Council which refers to the mongoose introduced into Hawai'i as "Herpestes javanicus". That name is mentioned in this article as a subspecies of the Javan mongoose. Do you have a source that says that a different species of mongoose was introduced into Hawai'i? CodeTalker (talk) 21:27, 5 May 2023 (UTC)


 * See Small Indian mongoose and where it was introduced. I also recommend you read the taxonomy section there. BhagyaMani (talk) 02:36, 6 May 2023 (UTC)