Banded mongooses have discovered a survival trick so extreme it looks more like self-destruction than self-preservation. The ...

What Cobra Venom Actually Does to a Body A cobra does not kill with brute force. Its venom is a precise molecular weapon: a ...

With outbreaks of infectious diseases making headlines around the world, scientists are under pressure to understand the drivers that influence the transmission of pathogens in order to better predict ...

Animals are more eloquent than previously assumed. Even the monosyllabic call of the banded mongoose is structured and thus comparable with the vowel and consonant system of human speech. Behavioral ...

In this dramatic footage, a brave mongoose takes on a leopard in a fierce encounter, leaping at the predator's face in a display of defiance. Although initially captured by the leopard, the mongoose ...

In the wilds of Botswana, a pathogen called Mycobacterium mungi has a very clever strategy for infecting the banded mongoose. A relative of the pathogen that causes the lung disease tuberculosis in ...

Under a concrete drainage culvert at the edge of a town in Botswana, a troop of banded mongoose is getting ready to leave its den. Moving from shade into light, the cat-sized animals scan the area for ...

"The motto of all the mongoose family is, 'Run and find out,'" author Rudyard Kipling explains in his 1894 book Rikki-Tikki-Tavi. In true mongoose fashion, then, we decided to investigate these ...

A new study explores the ways that landscapes can influence animal behavior, fostering dynamics that either encourage or limit the spread of infectious diseases. With outbreaks of infectious diseases ...