Banded Mongoose
Mungos mungo
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Banded Mongooses are highly sociable and live in large troops - typically between 5 and 30 individuals, but much larger troops have been recorded. When foraging for food they use vocal calls to maintain contact with each other.
Banded Mongoose
Mungos mungo
Known to many people from Rudyard Kipling's The Jungle Book, mongooses are small, catlike carnivores.
Banded mongoose (Mungos mungo)
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Termite mounds are everywhere here, and many animals make use of them. Here is a troop of banded mongooses running for cover in their burrows in a termite mound. I really wanted to call them mongeese but that's not what the mammal books say.
Gambian Mongoose (M. gambianus) Â- Banded Mongoose (M. mungo)
Paracynictis
Selous' Mongoose (P. selousi) ...
 See also: Mongoose, Goose, Lion, Leopard, Caracal
  
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