Indian Gray Mongoose

Indian Gray Mongoose

Herpestes edwardsi

Insufficient data
overall probability at Keoladeo National Park
4 Verified records at Keoladeo National Park
🌅 Crepuscular When it's active at dawn and dusk

The Indian grey mongoose or Asian grey mongoose (Urva edwardsii) is a mongoose species native to the Indian subcontinent and West Asia. It is listed as least concern on the IUCN Red List. The grey mongoose inhabits open forests, scrublands and cultivated fields, often close to human habitation. It lives in burrows, hedgerows and thickets, among groves of trees, and takes shelter under rocks or bushes and even in drains. It is bold and inquisitive but wary, seldom venturing far from cover. It is an excellent climber and usually lives singly or in pairs. Wikipedia →

Closest Relatives at Keoladeo National Park

Asian Jackal
LC

Asian Jackal

🌅 Crepuscular Mammal

Canis aureus

70–80% · Likely

📅 Monthly Probability

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Fewer than 5 records of Indian Gray Mongoose at Keoladeo National Park — not enough to chart months honestly.

🌅 When They're Spotted

Most active at dawn and dusk · across all parks (global)

🌅Crepuscular
☀️🌙🌙12am6am12pm6pm12am

Global Distribution

Where this species is recorded worldwide. Restricted to human observations from 2019 onwards — the same kind of record and the same period the probabilities on this page are built from, so collar-tracking studies, camera-trap arrays and museum specimens are excluded. Around Santa Rosa that removes 5,924 GPS fixes from a handful of tagged jaguars.

where this species is recorded (GBIF density — it tracks where observers go, not how likely a sighting is)  ·  parks where it occurs — tap a pin for the sighting probability there

Parks Where Found

# Park Country Probability
1 Mudumalai National Park 🇮🇳 India
30–40%
2 Minneriya National Park 🇱🇰 Sri Lanka
20–30%
3 Ranthambore National Park 🇮🇳 India
20–30%
4 Wilpattu National Park 🇱🇰 Sri Lanka
20–30%
5 Chitwan National Park 🇳🇵 Nepal
20–30%
6 Yala National Park 🇱🇰 Sri Lanka
20–30%
7 Royal Bardia National Park 🇳🇵 Nepal
Insufficient data
8 Bandhavgarh National Park 🇮🇳 India
Insufficient data
9 Keoladeo National Park 🇮🇳 India
Insufficient data
10 Periyar National Park 🇮🇳 India
Insufficient data
11 Jim Corbett National Park 🇮🇳 India
Insufficient data
12 Sinharaja Forest Reserve 🇱🇰 Sri Lanka
Insufficient data
13 Kaziranga National Park 🇮🇳 India
Insufficient data
14 Kanha National Park 🇮🇳 India
Insufficient data
15 Bandipur National Park 🇮🇳 India
Insufficient data
16 Nagarhole National Park 🇮🇳 India
Insufficient data
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