Band of Mongoose - 01:08 pm
28 Dec 2009
The rain stayed during the night and the sky was completely clouded over at sunrise.
It was a soft drizzle that persisted throughout the morning but as the day drew on the sun managed to show itself.
Moremi was rather quiet with not much about. After finding a pack of Banded Mongooses (Mungos mungo), we followed them.
They were constantly on the move, searching for food. There were many pups who were all around 8 weeks old. They would never venture far from any of the adults and communicated with constant chittering and twittering. If one pack member found a tasty morsel it was immediately mobbed by others and mongooses are not known for sharing meals, so it would have to run off with its meal before being overpowered by the others.
At the first sign of any danger there would be an alarm call and the youngsters would run for the safety of the nearest adult.
By early evening the clouds had opened up enough to allow yet another spectacular Moremi sunset.
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