Authors: Geraldine Veron MarieLilith Patou Daniel Simberloff Patricia A McLenachan Craig G Morley
Publish Date: 2009/10/23
Volume: 12, Issue: 7, Pages: 1947-1951
Abstract
A thriving population of the Indian brown mongoose Herpestes fuscus native to southwest India and Sri Lanka has been discovered on the island of Viti Levu in Fiji This is the first known introduction of this species and may derive from a pair brought from an unknown source to a private zoo in the late 1970s They cooccur on Viti Levu with the much smaller small Indian mongoose H auropunctatus and they are probably nocturnally active No research has been conducted on their activity diet or impact on Fiji
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