Mongoose

[whizzplank]

Has the Mongoose ever inhabited Australia?

[Richard Head]

no, to my knowledgs Vanessa Feltz has always lived in this country.

[Clanad]

Heh, Heh.... but check here...

http://www.earthlife.net/mammals/families.html

[New Forester]

Clanad's reference deals only with where animals are native, and so correctly omits Australia.  That page seems to forget about Antarctica (mongooses are not found there either).  But it doesn't say whether they've been introduced there.

 

I've not been able to find any mention of mongooses as an introduction to Australia -- perhaps surprising, as there have been so very many other foolish introductions there.

 

The Australian Department of the Environment and Heritage has a page:

 

http://www.deh.gov.au/biodiversity/abrs/publications/fauna-of-australia/pubs/volume1b/35-ind.pdf

 

On this it says:

"It is interesting that neither mongooses nor ferrets have established wild populations in Australia."

 

I did find one vague suggestion that an introduction had failed.

[peachy_puss]

no they havn't i live in australia and i'v never seen one...and no the havn't enhabited here eather...they would kill all the native animals like most of the other animals that foolish pple have introduced here...