Most animals know better than to get too close to a snake. But mongooses are not most animals. In the tense viral video shown above, a python appears to grab one mongoose, and within seconds, the ...

The idea sounded sensible at the time. Sugar plantations were losing money to rats, who were chewing through crops and infrastructure. But nature had an answer: the mongoose. Import a predator, let it ...

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 ...

Nature often is witness to 'survival of the fittest' in the animal kingdom; and amongst these, one of the most fascinating rivalries is between the King Cobra, the world’s longest venomous snake, and ...

Rachael has a degree in Zoology from the University of Southampton, and specializes in animal behavior, evolution, palaeontology, and the environment. Rachael has a degree in Zoology from the ...