Grandidier's Mongoose
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| Galidictis grandidieri Wozencraft, 1986 |
Grandidier's Mongoose (Galidictis grandidieri), also known as the Giant-striped Mongoose, 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. Grandidier's Mongoose is larger than the related Broad-striped Malagasy Mongoose, G. fasciata, and its stripes are not as wide.
Grandidier's Mongoose primarily eats small vertebrates like rodents and lizards, though it has been recorded eating invertebrates.
Nocturnal and crepuscular, this mongoose lives in pairs which produce one offspring a year, in the summer.
[edit] References
- ^ Dollar, L. (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
