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Posted by Zebulost on July 3, 2000 at 11:12:39:

In Reply to: A mongoose is as a mongoose does. posted by Eric Prothero on July 3, 2000 at 08:09:57:

> Mongeese (Plural?)are weasle like creatures about the size of a large house cat.
> They have increadible speed and eat snakes. They are famed for killing cobras in particular though this is no greater in my book than killing say a viper of some sort.

Probably less greater then killing a viper of some sort, since a cobra doesn't 'leap' to get extra range in its strike - if the cobra's head is reared up 2 feet, then it won't be able to hit something further away then 2 feet, making dodging it easier.

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What is a viper? nothing else. m00 07:31:20 7/4/2000 (0)

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Comments:	> > Mongeese (Plural?)are weasle like creatures about the size of a large house cat. > > They have increadible speed and eat snakes. They are famed for killing cobras in particular though this is no greater in my book than killing say a viper of some sort. > > Probably less greater then killing a viper of some sort, since a cobra doesn't 'leap' to get extra range in its strike - if the cobra's head is reared up 2 feet, then it won't be able to hit something further away then 2 feet, making dodging it easier.