Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In this August 2013 photo provided by the Banded Mongoose Research Project in November 2020, banded mongooses form battle lines in ...

New research out of the University of Exeter (UE) in England makes a day in the life of a banded mongoose sound like an episode of the TV show, Vikings. Turns out the little critters engage in some ...

This press release is available in German. Animals are more eloquent than previously assumed. Even the monosyllabic call of the banded mongoose is structured and thus comparable with the vowel and ...

When two opposing mongoose "armies" decide to face off, the ensuing brawl rivals a human battle. Often, blood is shed as the winning pack isolates and converges on the lone male mongoose that dared to ...

Female banded mongooses instigate fights with neighboring social groups so they can mate with the males of the opposing group while the fur is flying, reports Donna Lu of New Scientist. Violent ...

Female banded mongooses risk their lives to mate with rivals during pack 'warfare' and both males and females have also learned to discriminate between relatives and non-relatives to avoid inbreeding ...

Takeovers are the norm and boundaries are marked with feces, urine and anal secretions in a mongoose's world, so there's no such thing as a friendly neighbor. Mongooses, small catlike carnivores, ...

Mongooses have evolved into a 'fairer society' because mothers cannot tell which pups are their own, forcing them to help the most 'needy' instead, researchers claim. They say a 'veil of ignorance' ...

In this August 2013 photo provided by the Banded Mongoose Research Project in November 2020, banded mongooses form battle lines in Queen Elizabeth National Park, Uganda. When families of banded ...

Animals are more eloquent than previously assumed. Even the monosyllabic call of the banded mongoose is structured and thus comparable with the vowel and consonant system of human speech. Behavioral ...

When families of banded mongooses prepare to fight, they form battle lines. Each clan of about 20 animals stands nose to nose, their ears flattened back, as they stare down the enemy. A patch of ...