mongoose

• A complete skull of a mongoose was discovered within a deposit dated to the Chalcolithic period; a radiocarbon date on the skull and its state of preservation preservation, makes it clear that this poor old mongoose dug himself into the site deposits before dying. —  About.com Archaeology
• Mangusta comes from the Latin for mongoose, the snake killer. —  Wheels
• Barbados Nation report, the mongoose was proposed as the mascot for World Cup 2007. —  CaribbeanCricket.com
• In addition, the mongoose is not even native to the West Indies; rather, it was introduced into the Caribbean islands in the 1800s by owners of the sugar plantations, in a bid to rid the plantations of rats. —  CaribbeanCricket.com
• The law of unintended consequences dictated that as much as the mongoose was able to keep the rat population under control in the Caribbean, it also had a harmful effect on such birds as the white-bellied dove of Jamaica, the "Red Neck" Pigeon, and the common Turkey Buzzard or as it's more commonly known, the "John Crow." —  CaribbeanCricket.com

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