Angolan slender mongoose
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| Angolan Slender Mongoose | |
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| Species: | G. flavescens
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| Galerella flavescens (Bocage, 1889)
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| Angolan slender mongoose range | |
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
- ^ Template:IUCN2008 Database entry includes a brief justification of why this species is of least concern
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