Mongoose has left the building

Hi all - welcome to the new home and new name of my blog. All the old "Mongoose World" content has been moved here.

Why?

Well, I decided it was time for a change. The Mongoose persona was something that meant something to me a while ago. I left a slightly cryptic reference to it in the sidebar, but never really explained it. Here you go. It's in the third paragraph. If it doesn't make sense to you, never mind. I said it was personal.

But that time is gone, and so's the Mongoose. I'll miss the little bugger. Hope he's happy, wherever he is.

Mongoose vs Cobra

Vicious little beasties, mongooses.



Apparently, mongooses have receptors for acetylcholine that, like the receptors in snakes, are shaped so that it is impossible for snake neurotoxin venom to attach to them. Research is being done to determine if similar mechanisms protect the mongoose from hemotoxic snake venoms. How damn cool is that, eh?

A mongoose

Now this is one nice picture of a mongoose, courtesy of National Geographic.