There's nothing more to say about education in the US

The forests wouldn't too.

Yes, I believe the proper spelling is "mongoose". But perhaps OP is not a native speaker in English. In Finnish "mongoose" is "mangusti" and in Swedish "mangust" so (s)he may have just gotten confused. Or the script is simply wrong about the spelling.

I think it's because of his accent it sounds more like he's saying mangoust rather than mongoose

No, he pronounces 'mongoose' relatively well actually

Yes! I'm glad someone else knows about this! Smokey the Bear was thought to be the cause of some of the worst forest fires in America.