it is the narrow-striped mongoose (Mungotictis decemlineata) from Madagascar. Part of the PC nonsense sweeping the world in the last decade is that animals must now be known only by their local names from country of origin and under no circumstances must any intelligible English name be used. It avoids confusion don't you know.
The native name calling does get on my nerve. Especially when people call the Fossa a Foossa or Foosh, when there not native. Anyway thank you for the photo.
If this is a Boky-Boky, we're going to have to start talking about Tembo, Simba & N'Gi in our zoos instead of using the English names, and I'll have to remember which Madegascar duck is a sakedely [if I've even spelt it right...]
it is the narrow-striped mongoose (Mungotictis decemlineata) from Madagascar. Part of the PC nonsense sweeping the world in the last decade is that animals must now be known only by their local names from country of origin and under no circumstances must any intelligible English name be used. It avoids confusion don't you know.
Mungotictis used to be classified as a mongoose in the family Herpestidae, but it has become clear that all the Malagasy carnivores are separate from Herpestidae and Viverridae, and belong in their own family, Eupleridae. Any that used 'mongoose' or 'civet' in their name are now not absolutely strictly if we're going to be even more pedantic than I would normally be quite accurate. So we see the appearance of 'boky' and 'vontsira' and so on.
Of course, this fall down as soon as you mention cuttlefish, mountain chickens, even sea lions. But hey, it still happens.
(maybe we ought to pick just one thread to have this debate )
