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“the Lord Ratnasambhava keeps all his treasure inside mongooses. When the god needs his gems and jewels, he squeezes one mongoose and makes it vomit them up!”

Treasure Hinduism Nepal Mongoose Mongooses Ratnasambhava

Book:Himalayan Kidnap

Source: Himalayan Kidnap

“Three mongooses, playing chase, burst out of the undergrowth and came galumphing across the track. The leader stopped and the other two bounced on him. There was a crazy bundle of squealing fur, ears, noses and tails. The mongooses broke apart. All three stood up on hind legs to look at us.”

Wildlife Nepal Mongoose Mongooses

Book:Himalayan Kidnap

Source: Himalayan Kidnap

“Gef’s story, which would have been nonsense even if it had not come from the mouth of a talking mongoose, was that he was born in New Delhi on June 7th, 1852. This meant he was at least eighty when he met the Irvings. On average, mongooses live twenty years, though this is the lifespan of a nonverbal mongoose. No one has yet established the longevity of one given the power of speech, but we may assume it is at least ninety.”

Paranormal Mongoose Gef The Talking Mongoose Mongooses

Book:The Curious Case of the Talking Mongoose

Source: The Curious Case of the Talking Mongoose

“The only reason mongooses don’t speak regularly is that they are shy.”

Mongoose Gef The Talking Mongoose Mongooses

Book:The Curious Case of the Talking Mongoose

Source: The Curious Case of the Talking Mongoose

“Mongooses lack the larynx and jaws for speech, to say nothing of the motivation.”

Motivation Speak Speech Jaws Mongoose Mongooses Larynx

Book:The Curious Case of the Talking Mongoose

Source: The Curious Case of the Talking Mongoose

“Physiologically, Gef was not a mongoose. He did not possess the almost canine forepaws of his supposed species but tiny articulated, three-fingered (and a thumb) appendages that could manipulate items and, as occasion demanded, squeeze the life out of the rabbits he would gift.”

Rabbits Hand Mongoose Gef The Talking Mongoose Strangle Paw

Book:The Curious Case of the Talking Mongoose

Source: The Curious Case of the Talking Mongoose

“Making it look easy is the hardest thing in the world to do.”

Source: Something More: Excavating Your Authentic Self

“Humans are a young species, and my little life abides in a very big place, where epochs glide by as swiftly as the mongoose. And strangely enough, when we put our human concerns into their proper, small place, we can turn our attention completely to the small things. To a cricket hidden in a crack of lava. To each other.”

Humans Littles Enough Bigs Young Turns Attention Concern Species Cracks Cricket Small Things Lava Small Places Mongoose

Author:Sallie Tisdale

“Fiction. . . . It's like goading a mongoose and a cobra into battle and staying with them to see who wins.”

Winning Fiction Battle Staying Cobras Mongoose

Author:Shauna Singh Baldwin

“The motto of all the mongoose family is, "Run and find out," and Rikki-tikki was a true mongoose.”

Running Motto Mongoose

Book:Rikki-tikki-tavi

Source: Rikki-tikki-tavi

“Throughout history, men have tried to play God by moving rabbits, goats, sparrows, mongooses, and a hundred other species to oceanic islands and island continents, and later have wished to God they hadn't.”

Men Play Moving Hundred Species Islands Continents Conservation Rabbits Goats Sparrows Mongoose

Author:Victor Blanchard Scheffer