Mongoose

Madison Reiter Hour 6-7 Character Analysis Paper In the dusty desert, of India lives a deadly cobra. In my ELA class we read a story called Rikki Tikki Tavi written by Rudyard Kipling. In the story, a little mongoose named Rikki Tikki Tavi, or for short Rikki Tikki, gets help from a family in India. Rikki Tikki then goes on an adventure throughout the garden and the house. He also protects the family throughout the dangers they come across, but then trouble comes. Nag and Nagaina are fighting…

their quests of heroism and glory. They don’t understand that to become a hero, one must act on it. “Rikki-tikki-tavi,” a short story by Rudyard Kipling, is the story of a mongoose who must protect the garden by his bungalow from villainous snakes. He had help from other garden animals, but he was the main lionheart. The mongoose, Rikki-tikki, takes action to make the garden a safer place, and becomes a hero for his efforts. Kipling shows to the reader through point of view and characterization…

Termites are little vegetable and wood eating insects that cause thousands of dollars in repair costs for many homeowners in Australia. They also serve as an important food source to many creatures as well. Here are 10 animals that eat termites. Red-Headed Woodpecker The classic portralyel of a woodpecker pecking away at trees is more than just a cliche. In all acutailty they are busily searching for a variety of pest ssuch as beetle larvae, ants and termites. Red-headded qwoodpeckers are…

Rikki killed Karait, a minor snake, that tried to attack Teddy. This is how we know Rikki is protective of the family. Also, Rikki is very courageous for taking on the two black Indian Cobras to protect a family that saved his life. As being a loyal mongoose, by protecting the family, they are treating him nicely and with respect because he has saved their…

hole. The stories are different and similar in many ways including events, conflict, and character roles. There are mostly similarities, but some differences in the beginning of the story. Teddy’s dad rescues Rikki after teddy says there’s a dead Mongoose in front of them (movie). However, the dad plays that part in the movie, Teddy’s mom saves Rikki in the book (Kipling). They warm Rikki up in some wool. Then Teddy gives Rikki meat for some food (Kipling). However, in the movie Rikki is given…

placed in there without reason. What the public did not know at the time was that the Kennedy Administration, and previously the Eisenhower Administration, had been concocting a secret plan to take down Fidel Castro. They called their plan Operation Mongoose. Members of the government had been secretly debating the plan since 1961. When Castro came into power in 1959, after overthrowing Cuba’s previous dictator, Fulgencio Batista, he immediately changed things on the island, morphing the island…

Analysis of a literary character The story Rikki-Tikki-Tavi by Rudyard Kipling tells how a courageous mongoose named Rikki-Tikki defeated two dangerous and vicious black cobras single-handily in a bungalow in India. At the beginning of the story, a human family adopted Rikki-Tikki after a summer flood washed him away from his burrow. Then while living with the family, Rikki-Tikki had discovered Nag and his wife, a pair of cobras who had been very dangerous to the animals in the garden.…

your eye. The king cobra’s life is that of an eventful one that is characterized by its diet, it’s environment, and its defense. The diet of this carnivorous cobra usually includes many things such as eggs, chickens, small mammals, toads, lizards, mongooses, and rat snakes for dinner. After a meal, it will lay in the sun to speed up the digestion process, they are most vulnerable in this state. During Winter months when food is scarce, the cobra can live off of fat tissue for elongated periods…

One example is the Indian mongoose. The invasive Indian mongoose is a carrier of rabies. Rabies is a disease that affects the central nervous system. There is no cure and most of the time it is fatal. It is spread through contact with the saliva of an infected animal (americanhumane.org). Luckily…

Invasive species are tearing down our ecosystems, and we need creative ways to get rid of them. In the Article “The Snake That's Eating Florida” it explains how invasive species are killing america, and how in Florida the Burmese Python is killing all. Invasive species are a problem because they hurt ecosystems. Burmese Pythons are being released into the wild by owners that want to get rid of them. The breed at least 100 small eggs per a breeding. These Pythons are hurting the fragile…