2006-10-11 10:28:17 · 8 answers · asked by Dava 4 in Education & Reference ➔ Trivia
A monkey must have shagged a goose I guess.
2006-10-11 11:52:42 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
You've got it all wrong - a goose is so called because it looks like the rear of a mongoose.
2006-10-12 05:26:35 · answer #2 · answered by Silkie1 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
they used to be called "Mon", until Fred which was a practical joker was at a meeting of all the animals and played a practical joke on a giraffe which wasn't very funny, Alan the lion said "what a goose" and from then on they were known as 'Mongoose'
Hope this helps
2006-10-11 17:39:49 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Mon Mon Mon,
what an odd name it has. Mongoose... that's as bad as AARDVARK what up with that... what the heck is a VARK?
and what makes it and Aard one...to Vark...
OR.... Platypus
the Platypus and Mongoose sitting by the sea....
you make up the rest of the poem....
be creative.
2006-10-11 17:38:37 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
That's silly.
My mongoose is called Clive!
2006-10-11 17:29:56 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Click on link - origin of the name is in the last line of the definition
2006-10-11 17:43:52 · answer #6 · answered by ragingmk 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It comes from Marathi "mangūs" In the late 17th century.
2006-10-11 20:15:48 · answer #7 · answered by Skie 17 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
that's like asking why all the other animals in the world are named what they are.
example----cattle looks nothing like cats
2006-10-11 17:36:34 · answer #8 · answered by ^..^ 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋