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In our romantic life, we more closely resemble these social, close-knit mongooses than we do our primate cousins, a "league table" of monogamy compiled by scientists suggests.

From BBC • Dec. 10, 2025

On the course, elaborate tombs of the city's past rulers poke through tangled trees that are home to peacocks, troops of monkeys and mongooses.

From Barron's • Oct. 18, 2025

Dwarf mongooses are Africa's smallest carnivore, living in cooperatively breeding, territorial groups of 5-30 individuals.

From Science Daily • Nov. 14, 2023

For the dwarf mongooses at Queen Elizabeth National Park in Uganda, the most intense power struggles occur between groups.

From Scientific American • Apr. 15, 2022

There were four kinds of monkeys in addition to the baboons, and many smaller animals such as squirrels and mongooses.

From "My Life with the Chimpanzees" by Jane Goodall