Angolan Slender Mongoose

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Angolan Slender Mongoose
Conservation status
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Carnivora
Family: Herpestidae
Genus: Galerella
Species: G. flavescens
Binomial name
Galerella flavescens
(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.

[edit] References

  1. ^ Mustelid Specialist Group (1996). Galerella flavescens. 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. IUCN 2006. Retrieved on 2007-01-18.

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