Mongoose (disambiguation)

Animals: The word mongoose is used to refer to two types carnivorous mammals:

• The Herpestidae, the "true mongooses".
• The Galidiinae, or "Malagasy mongooses", of Madagascar, which were reclassified from the Herpestidae to the Malagasy carnivore group in 2006.

Mongoose may also refer to:

Technology

• Mongoose (bicycles), a brand name of bicycles produced by Pacific Cycle
• Mongoose-V, a series of 32-bit computer processors used for NASA satellites
• Mongoose Cricket Bat, a cricket bat for 20/20 games
• Agusta A129 Mangusta ("Mongoose"), attack helicopter
• Mongoose (web server), a webserver
• Mongoose, a data-modelling format for MongoDB data

Fiction and fictional characters

• Mongoose (comics), a Marvel Comics super-villain
• The Mongoose, a notorious hitman in Jean van Hamme & William Vance's graphic novel, XIII
• Mongoose, nickname of fictional basketball player Billy Joe Cuthbert
• Gef the Talking Mongoose, the myth of a ghostly mongoose from the Isle of Man
• Sauce for the Mongoose, a novel written by Bruce Kinloch about a family adopting a mongoose as a pet
• Rikki-Tikki-Tavi is a mongoose who eats snakes

Other

• Mongoose Publishing, British manufacturer of role-playing books, pewter miniatures, and card games
• Mongoose Harewood, a footballer
• Operation Mongoose, the code name of one of several military actions
• The Mongoose, nickname of Tom McEwen, an American drag racer

See also

• All pages beginning with "mongoose"
• All pages with titles containing mongoose