STATUS
IUCN : LRIC
ZSI/CAMP : Common
Schedule : II (Part II)
Population : Common
Activity : Diurnal
Social Group : Solitary or in pairs
👉Local name : Nano noliyo, Nevla
👉Physical measurements & life cycle : 👇
Length : 65 cm (tail length : 25 cm)
Weight : 750 - 900 gm
Gestation : 40 - 42 days
Life span : 9 - 10 years
Breeding : 2 - 3 time in a year
👉Description : Smaller size, shorter tail, brownish grey colour of the body speckled with blackish dark brown hairs.
👉Food : Mainly carnivorous. Feeds on hares, rats, snakes, frogs, eggs of birds and insects.
👉Distribution : All over the state.
👉Habitat : It inhabits fields, farms, grasslands, forests and thorny area.
👉Behaviour : Diurnal. It lives in burrows dug by itself.
👉Signs of presence : Pugmarks, track along hedges.
👉There are two races of this species. One of them lives in/near desert areas and has pale coat, whereas other one that lives in fertile areas of North India has dark brown coat minutely speckled with golden colour. It is a cautious animal that always lives under some cover. The young ones are quite helpless and dependent on mother. Like a mother cat, the mother mongoose restlessly moves her young ones from one place to the other.
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