Mongosity

April 4, 2018 12:48 AM

Silly mongoose.
posted by Bloxworth Snout (9 comments total)

Tricks are for kidds...

...so now that we've seen a mongoose 'playing possum', will we next be seeing an opossum fighting snakes?
posted by oneswellfoop at 1:03 AM on April 4, 2018

Zazu didn't seem too amused by the mongeese.
posted by poxandplague at 1:43 AM on April 4, 2018

Rikki Trikki Tavi
posted by chavenet at 2:52 AM on April 4, 2018 [1 favorite]

Not only are they adorable AF, mongooses also can make some pretty sweet jumps.
posted by davelog at 5:38 AM on April 4, 2018

I had no idea mongoose pups were so adorable!
posted by Johnny Wallflower at 8:35 AM on April 4, 2018

I'm not sure anything makes me happier than hearing scientists giggle.
posted by mudpuppie at 10:43 AM on April 4, 2018 [1 favorite]

That bird is a little like Emily Gilmore: "Was that supposed to be a joke?" -- "Well, it's not funny."
posted by Namlit at 10:51 AM on April 4, 2018

While the mongoose playing dead is hilarious, the side story here is the first ever captured footage of a hornbill slowly losing its mind.
posted by New England Cultist at 10:53 AM on April 4, 2018 [4 favorites]

I spent part of my childhood in the Serengeti National Park, as my dad was a field biologist at the time. We'd leave food out on the veranda of our house at night to feed the various foragers--I remember porcupines and mongoose mostly. The mongoose were the best ones to watch--we'd leave eggs out for them and they'd crack them by facing away from the wall or one of the columns holding up the veranda roof and slinging the egg between their hind legs against the wall/column, much like these guys.

(Then there was the evening a pride of lions camped out on our porch instead...)
posted by telophase at 11:11 AM on April 4, 2018 [2 favorites]