The Small Indian mongoose in Fiji is sedentary, solitary and has overlapping home ranges. It is highly predaceous with 60 % by weight of the prey being vertebrate. It is argued that while social groups in cats, hyenas and dogs allow exploitation of large prey, in viverrids they allow group defence.
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M. L. Gorman (1979) studied this question.
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