Endangered
Grandidier's mongoose
Galidictis grandidieri
Grandidier's mongoose, also known as the giant-striped mongoose or Grandidier's vontsira, is a small carnivoran that lives only in a very small area of southwestern Madagascar, in areas of spiny forest vegetation.
Appearance
It is pale brown or grayish coloured, with eight wide, dark stripes on its back and sides.
With a few exceptions, the majority of records of G. Grandidieri come from a narrow zone at the western edge of the Mahafaly Plateau in the Parc National de Tsimanampetsotsa, making it the Madagascan carnivore with the smallest range.
Grandidier's mongoose weighs 1.1 to 1.3 lb (0.5 to 0.6 kg).
Range and habitat
Grandidier's mongoose, also known as the giant-striped mongoose or Grandidier's vontsira, is a small carnivoran that lives only in a very small area of southwestern Madagascar, in areas of spiny forest vegetation. Even so, there seems to be virtually no range or dietary overlap between these animals and Grandidier's mongoose.
Pins are Wikidata “endemic to” fields. Orange dots, when present, are GBIF occurrence tiles — survey bias included.
Diet
Nocturnal and crepuscular, this species lives in pairs that produce one offspring a year, in the summer. The diet of Grandidier's mongoose varies markedly between the dry and wet seasons.
It is presumed that the distribution of this mongoose was notably broader and the proportion of prey types different in earlier times than today. Grandidier's mongoose must have adapted to dryer conditions, that have resulted in its very limited distribution and the exploitation of notably small prey.
In crisis
The species is sympatric with two other carnivores, the fossa (Cryptoprocta ferox) and the introduced Indian civet (Viverricula indica).
Grandidier's mongoose is Endangered on this catalog because that is the IUCN category stored on Wikidata. Confirm the official criteria and any later count on iucnredlist.org.
Sources
Written for this catalog from the English Wikipedia article on Grandidier's mongoose, Wikidata item Q912339. Family and order context is original field-guide writing about the group, not a copied assessment of this one species. Wikipedia text is CC BY-SA. Not an IUCN assessment. Counts, when quoted, can change — confirm them on the recovery programme and on iucnredlist.org.
