White-tailed mongoose (Ichneumia albicauda)
Photos [1, 2] by Josh More
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Taxonomy Tournament: Mammals
Caniformia. This suborder of Carnivora contains dogs, foxes, bears, otters, badgers, raccoons, skunks, seals, and walruses.
Feliformia. This suborder of Carnivora is made up of the felines, as well as hyenas and mongooses.
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Uncharismatic Fact of the Day
Banded mongoose females love drama. More specifically, they love to cause it; when mating season rolls around, females from one gang will start a fight with another gang. Then, when most of the males are thoroughly engaged, the females will sneak off to mate with any available rival males. Afterwards, they return to their original group, where the unsuspecting males help raise the pups as their own.
(Image: A banded mongoose mum and her pups (Mungos mungo) by Alan Horstmann via iNaturalist)
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A small Indian mongoose (Urva auropunctata) in Hawai'i
by matt "smooth tooth" knoth
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this strange little creature has vexed me for months
That’s an Ethiopian dwarf mongoose (Helogale hirtula)!
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Southern Yellow Mongoose
Cynictis penicillata ssp. penicillata
Western District, South Africa
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by jandutoit
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Sally and the Stompers 5 pages 12-13
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Yellow mongoose (Cynictis penicillata)
Photo © James Tompkins
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Mongooses don’t seem real
What do you mean they’re not extra angry Canadian gooses
That makes no sense
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Sound on, please.
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The Suricate
A Natural History of British and Foreign Quadrupeds. Written by James H. Fennell. 1843.
Internet Archive
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A pair of meerkats (Suricata suricatta) relax in Toronga Zoo, Sydney, Australia
by John Turnbull
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