What's the difference between meerkat and mongoose?
Meerkat
Definition:
(n.) A South African carnivore (Cynictis penicillata), allied to the ichneumons.
Example Sentences:
(1) But on Friday, the network blocked Meerkat’s access to its social graph, the data which shows who follows who on Twitter.
(2) But at the same time it just proved how significant Meerkat has become.” Meerkat’s rise has been astronomical.
(3) It’s, like, amazing brands are using it, people with access are using it – reporters, schools, churches doing services, real-estate agents doing showings of apartments.” Rubin, whose team created Meerkat in eight weeks – almost accidentally as a side project to his Life On Air streaming service – said its aim was to help people share the most exciting or special moments of their lives with friends, admirers, fans or just about anyone who might want to watch.
(4) Meerkat is on a 30-second delay , which is a big issue considering those asking questions, published to Twitter, must then wait through that time to see any response.
(5) Meerkat is likely to be the talk of South by Southwest, as Twitter was in 2007 and Foursquare in 2009, as investors and technology watchers seek out Rubin and watch the company’s curated Meerkat live-stream events.
(6) I want you to come with me to the apartment showing, or yoga, or class.” The app has not just been used by friends sharing puppy and cat videos: journalists broadcasted President Obama’s speech at the 50th anniversary of the Selma to Montgomery marches last weekend, and Meerkat has been used to interview a senator.
(7) Its app is a rival to Meerkat, which launched in February and generated interest at this year’s SXSW festival in March.
(8) Testing out Meerkat: the app that brings live streaming to Twitter Read more “We’ve had the Miami Dolphins [NFL team], American Idol … everyone using Meerkat.
(9) Without access to the graph, it’s impossible for Meerkat to offer the service it previously did, automatically following all of a user’s friends from Twitter who are also on the app.
(10) And it's not just the BBC: as well as The X Factor, Barlow has also been on ITV's Jonathan Ross Show, as well as appearing on the channel with meerkat Aleksandr Orlov in a 90-second ad for Comparethemeerkat.com.
(11) In third place in the overall chart was The Simples Life, by The Meerkat, with sales of 37,640.
(12) Meanwhile that bloody meerkat website has been reeling in punters by offering free cuddly toys, as if its main customers were toddlers requiring third-party fire and theft for their trikes.
(13) MeerKAT project manager Willem Esterhuyse has at least one answer.
(14) Periscope’s launch comes shortly after Twitter controversially blocked Meerkat from accessing its social graph – the means by which the app was helping people find others to watch based on who they were following on Twitter.
(15) That means Meerkat users will not be automatically connected to their Twitter friends with Meerkat.
(16) Two episodes of Meerkat Manor had 1 million and 900,000 viewers respectively on BBC2 between 5.10pm and 6pm.
(17) The cool blue tunnel of Afrikanische Strasse U-Bahn station is embellished with enormous colour photographs: a grinning giraffe; a herd of zebras on the savannah; a pair of meerkats.
(18) Further down the food chain, even the infuriating meerkat from the comparethemarket.com adverts has had A Simples Life put together by Val Hudson , formerly of Headline books.
(19) It was this eusocial behaviour – currently considered to be unique among mammals to the naked mole rat and its close relative the Damaraland mole rat, though other social animals, including meerkats, practise a less regimented version – that first led Faulkes into a PhD on the animal.
(20) Instant means instant For many, this was their first experience of Meerkat: click a stream, start watching and asking questions, and then … nothing.
Mongoose
Definition:
(n.) Alt. of Mongoos
Example Sentences:
(1) The overall leptospirosis prevalence for rodents was 23.4 percent, and for mongooses it was 23.0 percent.
(2) Observations on the epidemiology and symptomatology of rabies in the Yellow Mongoose are reported and various methods of control are suggested.
(3) The distribution pattern of filiform papillae was similar both in the musk shrews and mongoose, in that the form of filiform papillae changed gradually from the lingual apex to the posterior part of the lingual body.
(4) It was shown that mongoose AcChoR does not bind alpha-BTX in vivo or in vitro.
(5) Surveys of the small mammal populations indicate rats, mice, and mongooses are the most important vectors in Hawaii.
(7) Mongooses are indigenous to Africa and Asia and have been introduced elsewhere.
(8) Population density probably determines the importance of the mongoose as a reservoir of rabies.
(9) Mongoose (Herpestes ichneumon), hyena (Hyaena hyaena), cats and dogs were susceptible.
(10) The molecular weight of the factor was estimated to be 59,000 and 52,000 by a gel filtration and SDS-disc electrophoresis, respectively, suggesting that it consists of a single subunit, as we also found for the antihemorrhagic factors of the mongoose Herpestes edwardsii.
(11) The mongoose fragment is highly homologous (greater than 90%) to the respective mouse fragment.
(12) The sera of T. flavoviridis (Habu), H. edwardsii (mongoose) and D. semicarinatus (Akamata, non-venomous snake) were tested for their capacity to neutralize 28 species of hemorrhagic snake venoms in vitro.
(13) 119) of the Autumnalis serogroup in 1973, and its subsequent inclusion in our test battery of leptospiral antigens, high percentages of cattle, dogs, mongooses and man showed sero-positive reactions against the strain.
(14) The epithelium of the lingual dorsum of the mongoose, Herpestes edwardsi, was composed of two main areas: the interpapillary area, characterised by the absence of keratinisation; and the papillary area, characterised by hard keratinisation.
(16) Sequence comparison between species suggests that substitutions at positions 187, 189, and 194 are important in determining the resistance of mongoose and snake AcChoR to alpha-BTX.
(17) The thiourea treated mongooses display an increase in the number and size of the calcitonin cells.
(18) Histologically, the mongoose salivary glands were generally similar to those in other carnivores (dog, cat and ferret).
(19) The histology and mucosubstance histochemistry of the mongoose salivary glands were studied.
(20) In the current work, the prevalence of rodent and mongoose leptospirosis in the districts of Oahu was determined by the kidney-culture method.