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Small Indian Mongoose

Urva auropunctata

Where to See It Roadsides, fields and forest edges, by day

A slender, low-slung hunter brought here long ago to control snakes and rats in the cane fields. Quick and curious, it is often glimpsed darting across a road. Clever as it is, it has been hard on Grenada's ground-nesting birds and reptiles, which is exactly why patient predator control matters so much in the reserves.

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