Angolan Slender Mongoose

Angolan Slender Mongoose

Taxobox
name = Angolan Slender Mongoose
status = LR/lc
status_system = iucn2.3
status_ref = IUCN2006 | assessors = Mustelid Specialist Group | year = 1996 | title = Galerella flavescens | id = 41599 | downloaded = 2007-01-18]
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Chordata
classis = Mammalia
ordo = Carnivora
familia = Herpestidae
genus = "Galerella"
species = "G. flavescens"
binomial = "Galerella flavescens"
binomial_authority = (Bocage, 1889)

The Angolan Slender Mongoose ("Galerella flavescens") is a mongoose that lives in southern Africa, specifically Angola and Namibia. It lives in the savannah and avoids desert and dense forests

This animal has a long slim body and the males are around 15% bigger than the females. It has 38 teeth.

Males do not help in raising the young. The young open their eyes at 3 weeks and leave their mother at around 10 weeks and at 24 weeks get their adult teeth.

References

External links

* [http://www.lioncrusher.com/animal.asp?animal=158 "Lioncrusher's Domain" listing]


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