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Always smiling
@allknowing (153544)
• India
23 Jun
We have these mongoose roaming around in our garden. They are an asset around as they keep reptiles away At the same time they can be a nuisance as they dig into the roots of plants.
They also get into the house to rob food....
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Dr Souvik Chatterji
@sathviksouvik (23240)
20 Feb 25
Travellers who come to Kintamani in Indonesia are given demonstration of how coffee is grown. There is a variety of coffee called mongoose coffee. The coffee plantations are shown. Sample coffee are offered. There is interesting...
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Dr Souvik Chatterji
@sathviksouvik (23240)
19 Dec 23
Near Kintamani in Indonesia I went to coffee plantations with my family. The plantations were dedicated to mongoose coffee. The mongoose played a big role in fertilization of the coffee plants. In winter coffee tastes nice. Many...
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Dr Souvik Chatterji
@sathviksouvik (23240)
13 May 23
In Kintamani in Indonesia there are a lot of coffee plantations. The coffee plantations are very green and lovely. Mongoose coffee is very famous over there. The travellers are taken in the plantations and shown the manner of...
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Judy Evans
@JudyEv (381960)
• Rockingham, Australia
2 Feb 23
MyLotter, Always smiling (@allknowing) wrote about growing sweet potatoes and mentioned that mongooses would dig up her plants. She now has fenced off the plants to keep the pests out. You can catch up here:...
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Always smiling
@allknowing (153544)
• India
2 Feb 23
We had success with growing sweet potatoes only once. All our efforts after that landed in the mongoose digging up the ground where we planted them.
I have now created a garden bed in an enclosure and have planted cuttings...
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Dr Souvik Chatterji
@sathviksouvik (23240)
23 Dec 22
For some group of people tea and coffee really bring the mood for activities. In Kintamani in Indonesia there are coffee gardens where mongoose variety of coffee plantations are there. We were given scope of tasting around 25...
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Always smiling
@allknowing (153544)
• India
30 Jul 22
It takes almost a year for a pineapple to show up on the plant. These days however we have not seen them till maturity as the mongoose gets them even before they are ripe.
While we are happy that we have mongooses roaming the...
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Always smiling
@allknowing (153544)
• India
19 Aug 21
There is enmity between a reptile and a mongoose and that makes us feel comfortable as we have several of them running around our property
They are quite friendly and we sometimes see them coming for food that we keep for our...
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Always smiling
@allknowing (153544)
• India
19 Jun 21
Some of you may not know what a mongoose is. You will see them in the photo busy trying to increase their population. I like them but the only bad habit they have is digging in the soil for tubers and eating our pineapples....
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Arthur Chappell
@arthurchappell (44941)
• Preston, England
8 Mar 21
I have a lovely collection of the complete stories of Saki, (pen name of writer H H Munro). He was a Burma born British writer noted for his mostly very short stories, many three pages long or less. His tales range from very...
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LindaOH
@LindaOHio (222280)
• United States
24 Jun 19
The meerkat is in the mongoose family and lives in the Kalahari Desert in Botswana, the Namib Desert in Namibia, southwestern Angola and South Africa. A group of meerkats is called a mob, gang or clan. There are 20-50 meerkats...
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Always smiling
@allknowing (153544)
• India
31 May 19
We have strange visitors including snakes and peacocks. We even had a civet cat not so long ago There is no limit to the number of birds that come to enjoy our garden and frolic in the birdbath specially installed for them.
We...
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Dr Souvik Chatterji
@sathviksouvik (23240)
15 Oct 18
Among the different varieties of coffee grown in Indonesia the Mongoose coffee is very expensive. The mongoose activities in the soil shows the right areas of planting the trees. Travellers visit the plantations. The green trees...
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Vineeth Viswanath
@vin12345 (567)
• Kerala, India
3 May 17
Hey guys I just want to inform you that we had visitors last evening, not humans but animals.
Yesterday evening I heard some noise from the backyard where we have a tent used to store firewood as well as unwanted things. I...
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