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Feeding Habits
Air-dried scat was used to determine preferences in the diet of the M. decemlineata. Evidence showed that their diet included reptile egg membrane, bones, feathers and fragments of Arthropods.

Invertebrate s were the main source of food for M. decemlineata during the dry season of May to August and the wet season of January to March in the Kirindy Forest.

The Jaccard index was used to determine what prey items and Arthropod s the M. decemlineata preferred to eat during each season of the year. The results indicated that M. decemlineata would consume any food that was available to them and that they were not selective towards any particular prey item.

Insect Larva was a main part of their diet. M. decemlineata forage in top soil, ground litter, and rotten wood from fallen trees, which shows how insect larvae could be considered a staple part of their diet. Gastropoda were also found as a main source of food during rainy seasons.

The M. decemlineata demonstrate unique social behaviors. Females form home ranges in their Habitat. These home ranges are areas of land where 1-3 females will form a stable social unit where they live with their offspring. Males will also form their own social units including 2-4 adult males. The male units form a large home range, which will often overlap with at least 3 female social units, and is often where mates find one another.

Reproduction
Females will give birth to one offsrping and reproduction is typically seaonal. Offspring are typically born during the end months of the dry season, falling between October to December. Females may extend their birthing months if they lose an offspring and can end up giving birth in February or March. Many offspring do not survive. There is about a 28% success rate of young surviving and it is often the oldest offspring of the most dominant female that will prevail. There is typically a 74-106 days gestation period for females.

Males often mate with more than one female unit and can be considered Polygamous. Females may also mate with more than one male. M. decemlineata were found to be closely related. Females were found to be more closely related than males, most likely because female dispersal is more spatially limited.

Conservation
A study showed that there are three areas of need for the conservation of M. decemlineata that must be studied or focused on. These areas of need include the efforts to get local villages to reduce slash and burn agriculture and commercial logging, determining population trends of M. decemlineata in areas where there are threatened and fragmented forests, and investigating Taxonomy (biology) or taxonomic status of this species and possible related subspecies.

Phylogeny
M. decemlineata is part of a Monophyletic Clade and is considered to be part of the Malagasy carnivore group. Carnivores of Madagascar are considered to come from a single dispersal event. M. decemlineata is a descendant of the Feliformia clade and shares common ancestors with sister clades that also fall under the clade Feliformia.

Taxonomy
M. decemlineata would benefit from additional research into taxonomy and Subspecies. There is some Controversy revolving around the naming of this species. In a study by the Morondova River, M. decemlineata were found North and South of the river, but it could not be determined if all of the M. decemlineata found were in the same or differing subspecies. All of the native carnivores of Madagascar come from the family Eupleridae. They are the most taxonomically distinct order of Carnivora even though they are confined to Madagascar.

Common names for species can often take away from how phylogenetically distinct they are. The Malagasy Narrow-Striped Mongoose falls into that category because the name does not show the independent evolution of its features. Mongooses and civets are widespread in Madagascar. There is confusion about the phylogenetic relationship between some animals due to use of English names. There are two classifications of English naming in the present day for Madagascar carnivores. One is that Malagasy names are used and may or may not use English modifiers. The other classification is that zoologists will often pick an existing English name, such as 'mongoose,' which groups all mongoose into one category. Mongoose may have distinctive features that should keep them in separate categories. There is no vernacular heritage being used for Madagascar carnivores falling under these classifications. It becomes tough for people to differentiate between species, which was exemplified in the study from the Morondova River.