### animal | vertebrate | mammal:

Modern mammal
* Most modern mammals maintain body temperature.
* Most modern mammals maintain constant body temperature
* develop the ear bones from cartilage rudiments in a von Baerian style.
* have a single lower jaw bone
  - fur or hair, modern reptiles have scales

### animal | vertebrate | mammal:

Mongoose
* Mongeese attack snakes
  - venomous snakes
  - belong to families
  - destroy birds
* Mongeese eat eggs
  - poisonous snakes
  - small vertebrates
  - emit noise
* Mongeese feed on insects
  - invertebrate insects
  - rodents
  - find food
  - grab snakes
  - has-part noses
* Mongeese have ability
  - appetite
  - claws
  - different lifestyle
  - faces
  - habitats
  - long claws
  - many different lifestyle
  - pupils
  - taste
  - widespread habitats
* Mongeese includes brains
  - breasts
  - cell membranes
  - cells
  - chest cavities
  - chests
  - corpi
  - cytoplasm
  - ears
  - heads
  - nuclei
  - pedal extremities
  - piluses
  - plasma membranes
  - rib cages
  - sections
  - skulls
  - sterna
  - vacuoles
  - vertebrate feet
* Mongeese kill creatures
  - occupy regions
  - possess bodies
  - share warrens
  - take down snakes
* Mongeese threaten animals
  - native animals
* Mongeese threaten various animals
* Most mongooses differ from viverrids by being terrestrial, insectivorous, diurnal, and gregarious
  - feed on small vertebrates, insects and other invertebrates, and occasionally fruits
* Some mongooses also eat eggs, fruit, seeds, and nuts.
* are a common spectacle at roadside shows in Pakistan
  - widespread and successful group
* are active during the day and sleep at night in thick bush or disused ant-hills
  - active, bold predators
  - diurnal generalist carnivores that thrive in human-altered habitats
  - famously fearless animals, and have even gone down in literature as such
  - highly agile animals
  - live trapped and removed
  - mostly terrestrial, moving on all four limbs
  - noted for their audacious attacks on highly poisonous snakes such as king cobras
  - omnivores, which means they eat both meat and vegetation
  - short-legged animals with pointed noses, small ears, and long furry tails
  - small carnivores
  - software
  - very fast and agile creatures
* can carry leptospirosis
  - live in both wet and dry conditions including gardens, grasslands, and forests
* chew a small hole in the side of the egg and lick up the insides.
* feed on various small animals - from insects to rodents and reptiles.
* have a large anal sac containing at least two glandular openings
  - long bodies, short legs and small rounded ears placed on the side of the head
* live in abandoned burrows
  - scrublands and dry forest
  - mostly in Africa and southern Asia
* mostly feed on insects , crabs , earthworms , lizards , birds , and rodents.
* often breed with others of another group, but most stay within the group
  - stay around human habitations, and frequently are kept as pets
* produce alarm calls when they spot a danger.
* typically have a pointed head, a long tail, and thick hair except on the lower legs.

### animal | vertebrate | mammal | mongoose:

Banded mongoose
* are active during daylight hours, emerging at dawn from their dens
  - diurnal and always return to a den at night
* are stocky little animals with a wiry coat marked by dark transverse bands
  - wiry coats marked by dark vertical bands
* have strong communal ties.

Dwarf mongoose
* Dwarf mongeese occupy regions.
* are diurnal, and are up and out of their burrows with the sun.
* have a long slender body and a furry tail that is almost equal to body length
  - good eyesight and are active during the day
* show synchronous estrous but only the dominant female regularly gives birth.