Birds, rat snakes, land monitors, rodents and snails
Habitat
Forests and shrubland
Range
India and Sri Lanka
The ruddy mongoose is a mongoose of the forests and shrublands of India and Sri Lanka. It has greyish-brown fur and a tail that ends in a darker tassel. Head and body length averages 40–45 cm and the tail about 36 cm (Wikipedia, general species account).
It takes birds, rat snakes, land monitors, rodents and snails, and hunts by day and by night (Prater 1971, as reported on Wikipedia). The cached account of the species is very short and gives nothing more specific to India, so this entry is brief.
Description: Wildlife of India guide, Wildlife of Everywhere (wildlifeofeverywhere.com); general species information paraphrased from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)
Mammals of the World