Galidictis

Big Wide Stripe mongoose ( Galidictis grandidieri )

The wide stripes or bands mongoose mongooses ( Galidictis ) are a living in Madagascar predator species from the group of Malagasy carnivores ( Eupleridae ). There are two types:

• The broad area mongoose ( Galidictis fasciata ) and
• The Great Wide Stripe mongoose ( Galidictis grandidieri ).

Like all Madagascan mongoose mongooses have broad stripe a slender, elongated body with short limbs and bushy black. Their fur is gray brown, eponymous feature are the five to ten dark longitudinal stripes, which are separated by bright stripes and extend from the neck to the tail. The head is flat, pointed snout, and bushy tail is colored white or light gray. These animals can reach a body length 30-48 cm, a tail length from 25 to 33 centimeters and a weight of 500 to 1500 grams.

These animals live in Madagascar. While the broad area mongoose lives in the rain forests in the east of the island, the Great Wide Stripe mongoose is native to the thorn forests of the southwest.

Little is known about their way of life. They are nocturnal and stay mainly on the ground, but can climb well. Most observations are from solitary or in pairs fauna, rarely up to five-member groups. Their diet consists of both small vertebrates such as rodents, lemurs amphibians and reptiles, as well as from invertebrates such as cockroaches, grasshoppers and others.