slender mongoose
galerella latin

The slender mongoose generally lives either alone or in pairs.

Indeed, the slender mongoose and these other species may even den together, as most of their relatives are nocturnal.

The slender mongoose (Galerella sanguinea) has also been introduced.

Although originally described as a separate species by Thomas (1928), it was later often considered as a variant of the slender mongoose.

The slender mongoose is primarily carnivorous, though it is an opportunistic omnivore.

Slender mongooses are more adept at climbing trees than other mongooses, often hunting birds there.

The black mongoose resembles the slender mongoose except that its coat is entirely black.

Galerella is a genus of mongooses native to Africa commonly called the slender mongooses.

The Somalian slender mongoose (Galerella ochracea) is a mongoose endemic to Somalia.

Overall, the slender mongoose is in no immediate danger of extinction, and the IUCN Red List evaluated it as least concern.

The slender mongoose (Galerella sanguinea), also known as the black-tipped mongoose or the black-tailed mongoose, is a very common species of mongoose.

The slender mongoose has been targeted by extermination efforts in the past, due to its potential to be a rabies vector and the fact that it sometimes kills domestic poultry.

The reserve has Durban's largest population of blue duiker, besides grey duiker, banded and slender mongoose, porcupines and troops of vervet monkeys.

The Angolan slender mongoose (Galerella flavescens) is a mongoose that lives in southern Africa, specifically Angola and Namibia.

The slender mongoose, with up to fifty subspecies, are found throughout sub-Saharan Africa, with the Black mongoose of Angola and Namibia sometimes considered a separate species.

At Long Pool, where trees come ornamented with the tufted, loosely turned nests of weaver birds, we saw slender mongoose with pug noses, as well as hippos and crocodiles.

As befits the popular image of mongooses, the Slender Mongoose is capable of killing and subsequently eating venomous snakes, but such snakes do not constitute a significant portion of its diet.

The Namaqua Slender Mongoose (Galerella sanguinea swalius), also known as the Namibian Slender Mongoose, is a subspecies of the Slender Mongoose.

The Namaqua Slender Mongoose (Galerella sanguinea swalius), also known as the Namibian Slender Mongoose, is a subspecies of the Slender Mongoose.

Like other species of Galerella in southern Africa, the black mongoose has a broad diet, consuming adult, larval and pupal sarcophagid flies, amongst other insects, as well as reptiles, birds, small mammals and fruits.