Grey Mongoose

Many say that no movie can ever compare to a book, especially when the book concerned is a classic. Rudyard Kipling’s Rikki-Tikki-Tavi is an interesting short story concerning a mongoose rescued by an English family living in India. The mongoose, Rikki-Tikki-Tavi, protects the family that saved his life from two cobras, Nag and Nagaina, that are terrorizing the garden surrounding the bungalow. Both the book and movie revolve around this struggle between mongoose and cobra, but there are certain details that can change the way the story is seen.

That is very true, but easily disproven. Klum (2001) states that the cobra can produce “startling amounts of neurotoxin.” However, the mongoose has thick fur, and the cobra has short fangs, so injecting the cobra’s toxic venom will be a challenge. According to Campbell (2015), cobras can “flatten their necks into a hood when threatened.” However, the mongoose has the ability to fight snakes, so it will know what the cobra is doing. Klum (2001) also states that the cobra can “stand up like a man in a terrifying pose.” That is correct, but to the mongoose, size does not matter. It will fearlessly go up against even the biggest, most intimidating snakes as if it were the size of itself. The mongoose easily matches up with three of the cobras deadliest advantages.

The long-tailed weasel gets 8.4 units of energy a day from snakes in total but only get 0.1 of those units come from all four the striped snakes combined. The weasel gets 3.2 units from Garter snakes and 5.1 units from the Patch-nosed snakes. This is the same pattern that was seen in raptors. Both of the predators prefer the Garter snakes and Patch-nosed snakes to the striped snakes, further supporting the theory that the stripes on the Milk snake, Kingsnake, Shovel-nosed snake, and Coral snake make them less attractive to predators and therefore the predators eat much less of them then the Garter and Patch-nosed

Imagine taking a walk in the Florida Everglades. Now imagine that during that walk you come across a giant snake. In that snakes grip is a full-sized White-tailed deer. The two are battling it out, but the snake is clearly winning, it does not stand a chance against a full sized python. What could possibly be even worse than that would be a Burmese python battling an alligator and winning? It has happened even though the snake did not make it away from the fight. It looks like something out of a horror film and it is happening more than people might think. This giant snake

I choose the Eastern Spadefoot toad because of its unique spade on the back of each foot of the toad (hence its name). The Eastern Spadefoot is an endangered species that is a victim of urbanization, habitat deconstruction, and poaching. There are a few organizations trying to help the Eastern Spadefoot toad. For example, the Natural Heritage & Endangered Species Program, and the Genzyme Corporation worked together to make the conservation project at the Southwick Wildlife Management Area (WMA) in August 2015.

This creature spreads the fold of skin around its neck and gapes its mouth to scare its predator: Frilled neck Lizard/ King Cobra

Once the snakes are caught, they go through a few different processes. First, they have their venom removed from

Rikki-tikki-tavi was dedicated Mongoose that was able to save his family from dying multiple times. His dedication is shown on page 25, “ This gave him just one second's purchase, and he made the most of it. Then he was battered to and fro as a rat is shaken by a dog--to and fro on the floor, up and down, and around in great circles, but his eyes were red and he held on as the body cart-whipped over the floor, upsetting the tin dipper and the soap dish and the flesh brush, and banged against the tin side of the bath.” The way Rikki-tikki-tavi attacks the black cobra resembles how dedicated he is to saving the British family, and the rest of the animals that live in the garden. His dedication to saving himself and his family lead him to think about what happens when he lets go of the snake’s neck for a second. If Rikki-tikki-tavi lets go of the snake, he is certainly a death sentence for him, but not only will he be gone, the British family that nursed his family back to health would be gone. Holding the snake’s neck tightly exemplifies how Rikki-tikki-tavi would be dedicated by never stopping to hold the neck, and also portrays the fact that the animal would do anything to stop the black cobra from killing his new family. Indeed, Rikki-tikki has many character traits that shine throughout the story, when both acting out or

One problem that had occurred was that there were these two King Cobras, Nag and Nagaina, had fought with Darzee, the bird, and they had both consumed the eggs that Darzee had cared for. Rikki Tikki had cared for his loving family and wanted to protect them. The family was surprised that Rikki Tikki would care for them. Another problem was that Nag plotted to murder the dad by waiting in the bathroom, but since Rikki Tikki already heard about it, he decided to stay in the bathroom and sneak up on Nag. Once he got close enough to Nag, he jumped and latched onto the back of Nag. They had wrestled each other until Nag was murdered. Once Nagaina heard about Nag, she then decided to get in on the fun and plotted to murder the family, which led to the final problem. Rikki Tikki then went to go smash all but one of Nagaina’s eggs with the help of Darzee’s wife. Once Rikki Tikki then finished smashing the eggs, he then went on to fight Nagaina. They fought together and then Nagaina went into a hole to murder Rikki Tikki, He held on, but then fell into the hole. The next day, Rikki Tikki finally comes out of the whole and comes out with the body of Nagaina. Rikki Tikki has two sides of a story, but are both

In the short story “Rikki-Tikki-Tavi,” by Rudyard Kipling, it shows the human characteristics of a mongoose, Rikki, as being valiant and intelligent, and it also shows how a snake, Nagaina, is clever and intelligent. The theme of this story is about overcoming your fear to protect your family. First, Rikki-Tikki-Tavi shows the human characteristics as being valiant and intelligent . for example, Rikki says “Well, as his tail began to fluff up again, “marks or no marks, do you think it is right for you to eat fledglings out of a nest?” This shows that Rikki is not afraid to challenge a snake.

Often considered India's most dangerous snake. The venom contains highly powerful neurotoxins which cause the muscles to become paralyzed. It has two kinds of neurotoxins (postsynaptic and presynaptic) that usually affect the nerve endings located close to the synaptic cleft of the brain.

In this story of Rikki-Tikki-Tavi it is placed in very unusual location called India. India is a South Asian country with diverse terrain – from Himalayan peaks to Indian Ocean coastline. ( India 1) A young mongoose, named Rikki, is swept away from his family by the river and later on gets hospitality by a family of three. Also, information about a mongoose are long, furry creatures with a pointed face and despite being called a rodent it is not. In fact, mongoose are actually a member of Herpestidae family.(Livescience 1) He later discovers the two vicious cobras and kills them with the help of his friends. A cobra is known as a deadly snake that are found quite commonly in India. They are the longest snakes coming with first along with

Before answering the guiding question evidence needed to be collected. We confirmed that all the snakes are not from the same species, which means that their similarities don't have to do with heredity. We also confirmed that their predators, the Ferruginous hawk, cooper's hawk, and red-tailed hawk are in fact the same, and surprisingly compared to other snakes

The story Rikki-Tikki-Tavi by Rudyard Kipling is about a mongoose named Rikki-Tikki-Tavi and takes place in a bungalow and garden in India. Rikki must rid the garden of two evil snakes, Nag, and Nagaina, to keep his human family safe. Rikki protects Teddy from a small but vicious snake, krait, and doing so kills him, later that day he also kills Nag in the bathroom as nag planned to kill his human friends. Rikki sees nagina as a threat and goes to kill all her eggs but one, and confronts her with the last egg. Nagina then steals the egg and takes off to her hole with Rikki following her down her hole, and emerges victor.

Secondly both the Warden and the rattlesnake use venom specifically rattlesnake venom. The rattlesnake naturally uses venom if you threaten it. The Warden uses nail polish as