A small, sleek mongoose crouches in front of some spiky foliage.

A mongoose is perpendicular to the camera lens with its head turned in profile, displaying its tiny ears and sharp nose.

Close up of the head of the ruddy mongoose. It has variegated fur and clear amber-colored eyes.

A large mongoose walking away turns its head back to bare sharp teeth. Its head is gray and its nose is pink.

I also declare today #MongooseMonday. Here is an array of mongooses I’ve seen: #SmallIndianMongoose from #Hawaii, two pics of the #RuddyMongoose from #SriLanka, and #StripeNeckedMongoose (also called #KingMongoose He’s huge!) from Sri Lanka. #mongoose #wildlifephotography #photography #EastCoastKin

Dr Julie Kern with some of the wild dwarf mongooses that she habituated to her close presence in South Africa.

Dr Amy Morris-Drake with a habituated wild dwarf mongoose in South Africa.

Dr Josh Arbon at a termite mound in South Africa with dwarf mongooses.

This #MongooseMonday, some brilliant folk:

@juliekern.bsky.social: set up the Dwarf Mongoose Research Project & co-ran it for 7 years; Masters, PhD, PDRA

#AmyMorris-Drake: RA, Masters & PhD, PDRA; co-managed for 6 years

@josharbon.bsky.social: Masters, PDRA, database guru

#amazing #priceless

Dwarf mongoose on sentinel duty in South Africa. Photo by Shannon Benson.

Dwarf mongoose on sentinel duty in South Africa. Photo by Shannon Benson.

🌟 #MongooseMonday is upon us! 🌟

In dwarf mongoose groups, who provides #information matters.

More experienced individuals are 'trusted' the most: doi.org/10.1093/behe...

New group members take time to settle in: doi.org/10.1016/j.cu...

#acousticcommunication #mammals #fieldwork #experiments

Extended and cumulative effects of experimentally induced intergroup conflict in a cooperatively breeding mammal | Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences Conflict between rival groups is rife in nature. While recent work has begun exploring the behavioural consequences of this intergroup conflict, studies have primarily considered just the 1–2 h immedi...

#MongooseMonday time 👏

Dwarf mongooses battle rival #groups for #territory space

Intergroup #conflict drives changes in #behaviour (doi.org/10.1098/rspb...)

Surprisingly, intergroup threat is positively related to #reproductive success (doi.org/10.1098/rspb...)

#bioacoustics #mammals #war

Experimental evidence for delayed contingent cooperation among wild dwarf mongooses | PNAS Many animals participate in biological markets, with strong evidence existing for immediate cooperative trades. In particular, grooming is often ex...

#MongooseMonday is here again 🎉

Dwarf mongooses track what their groupmates are up to in the day using #vocal cues, altering their #grooming in the evening.

They reward helpful hounds (doi.org/10.1073/pnas...) & shun bullies (doi.org/10.7554/eLif...)

#bioacoustics #mammals #cooperation #conflict

Dwarf mongoose group in South Africa.

Habituated wild dwarf mongoose staring into a camera.

Habituated wild dwarf mongoose on a balance scale weighing itself.

It's #MongooseMonday 🎉

Dwarf mongooses are #cooperativebreeders, living in groups of 3-20 with a dominant breeding pair & helpers of both sexes.
doi.org/10.1098/rsos...

We study a South African population habituated to our close presence & trained to weigh themselves!
#fieldwork #social #behaviour

Dwarf mongoose drawing by wildlife artist Martin Aveling.

Dwarf mongoose pups emerging from the burrow.

Welcome to #MongooseMonday for all the info & pictures you didn't realise you needed!

Dwarf mongooses are Africa's smallest carnivore - upright, adults are the size of a 500 ml bottle; pups are tiny bundles of fun.

Thanks #MartinAveling for the drawing & @josharbon.bsky.social for the photo.

#MongooseMonday Flip-o-rama. Rapidly flip between these two images to simulate watching a mongoose run at high speed

Dramatic moment right before mongoose kills a cobra

#MongooseMonday go out there and kill the cobra that is your daily tasks

Another #MongooseMonday. Hold me, dear brother

Banded Mongoose

#MongooseMonday get ya bands up

#MongooseMonday. Let's have a good ass week everyone

Can't believe its been a week since the last #MongooseMonday

#MongooseMonday get those horizontal pupils scanning this week

The week is a cobra but it's #MongooseMonday. Go out there and kill it!

#MongooseMonday: Know Your Mongooses

Oh yeah. #MongooseMonday of a 4 day work week let's get it

Mongoose. Note the slit pupils

Motherfuckin' #MongooseMonday

Juvenile mongoose riding on mother's back

#MongooseMonday huh? Well, let's make it a good one

That epic moment when it's #MongooseMonday

Yellow mongoose standing upright

Wake up! Stand up! It's #MongooseMonday

Mongoose mother grooming her pup

Introducing: #MongooseMonday