Tag: mongoose

cryoverkiltmilk:

ayumi-nemera:

bunjywunjy:

mockwa:

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good morning everyone have an absolutely furious mongoose

It’s cuter when you recognize that the lion with visible spots is a juvenile. There’s a very high chance the other lion that runs over to investigate is the MOTHER.

The first lion is asking for comfort because she was given a big spook!!! and she needs mommy to tell her it’s safe and ok!!!! (What’s cuter is that mommy clearly reassures her, and goes on to take the parent role of ‘deal with the scream rat in order to protect my large and easily frightened daughter’)

this is all in all an adorable video 10/10

Who Would Win?

Three apex predators

OR

One Screaming Long Boi

I think the spooked child is a male, see the mohawk-mane starting to grow? The mongoose is probably protecting a nest. 

lorax177:

cryoverkiltmilk:

ayumi-nemera:

bunjywunjy:

mockwa:

🐯

🐯

🐯

good morning everyone have an absolutely furious mongoose

It’s cuter when you recognize that the lion with visible spots is a juvenile. There’s a very high chance the other lion that runs over to investigate is the MOTHER.

The first lion is asking for comfort because she was given a big spook!!! and she needs mommy to tell her it’s safe and ok!!!! (What’s cuter is that mommy clearly reassures her, and goes on to take the parent role of ‘deal with the scream rat in order to protect my large and easily frightened daughter’)

this is all in all an adorable video 10/10

Who Would Win?

Three apex predators

OR

One Screaming Long Boi

also the baby is actually a ~1 yo male (note the size difference, sprouting of hair, and testicles). The mongoose is probably a defensive male who is guarding the den, probably containing multiple lactating females (hence the lack of other mongooses and intensely territorial behavior). Banded mongoose communities are large and highly complex, and they have a system of communication that is much more complex than previously thought (bearing resemblance to their meerkat cousins in that respect). And contrary to popular belief, mongooses are felidiforms, not mustelids (that is, cat-like mammals rather than weasel relatives). So this mongoose is more closely related to those lions than to the convergently-evolved badger or stoat, which bears a lot of adaptational similarities.