Giant-striped Mongoose
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| Galidictis grandidieri Wozencraft, 1986 |
The Giant-striped Mongoose, also known as Grandidier's Mongoose, Galidictis grandidieri, is a small mammal weighing between 1.1 and 1.3 lb (500 to 600 g) and living in Southwestern Madagascar, in areas of spiny desert vegetation. It is a pale brown or grayish coloured mongoose, with eight wide, dark stripes on its back and sides. The Giant-striped mongoose is larger than the related Broad-striped Mongoose, G. fasciata, and its stripes are not as wide.
Giant-striped mongooses primarily eat small vertebrates like rodents and lizards, though they have been recorded eating invertebrates.
Nocturnal and crepuscular, this mongoose lives in pairs which produce one offspring a year, in the summer.
[edit] References
- Dollar (2000). Galidictis grandidieri. 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. IUCN 2006. Retrieved on 09 May 2006. Database entry includes justification for why this species is endangered
