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No, Rudyard Kipling inaccurately portrays a mongoose in his story “Rikki Tikki Tavi”. In “Rikki Tikki Tavi”, it is about a mongoose who gets washed up, but gets saved when a father and his son find the mongoose’s unconscious body on the ground. They bring him inside their house, rap him up in a blanket, and heats him up. He becomes conscious again and runs around, and since they saved him, he acts like a pet to them. He eventually sees two birds up in the trees yapping about the cobras. And then the cobras try to kill the mongoose for the rest of the story, but he took them down one by one.
Although in the story mongooses attack snakes there is more evidence that is inaccurate. In a recent video I watched it said that mongooses traveled in

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