FEMALE OF THE SPECIES BANDED MONGOOSE
ONCE SPENT A CHARMING AFTERNOON IN the company of a gaggle of banded mongooses. are poor cousins of the meerkat; close taxonomic relatives with a fraction of the fame but the same goofy charisma (in spades). These highly gregarious creatures live in boisterous rabbles of up to 40 family members and cruise the savannahs of southern and eastern Africa in search
