According to the ministry, 30 mongooses were introduced to Amami-Oshima in 1979 to exterminate the habu snake, a poisonous pit viper. A mongoose and a habu snake face down each other. There was a ...
A video has gone viral that shows a brutal fight between a snake and a mongoose. The video, posted on Instagram, shows a ...
the government and other organizations have been trying to get rid of the small Indian mongoose, which was introduced to the island around 1979 to reduce the populations of poisonous habu snakes ...
About 30 of the venom-resistant predators were released on Amami Oshima, a Unesco World Heritage site, in the late 1970s to keep down the population of habu, a pit viper whose bite can be deadly ...