Photo from Chikkanaragund Harshakumar via Harshakumar, Puttaswamaiah and Nag (2024) At a nature reserve in southern India, an “agile” mongoose set out in search of its next meal. Its hunt ...
Catching up with the group, Christian recalls how 'the bonobo held and stroked the little mongoose for more than an hour, carrying it carefully, as it climbed a tree to eat fruit'. At first look you ...
But instead, maybe the ape took the mongoose pup for dinner after killing its mother. But that would be unusual - bonobos mainly eat fruit and only occasionally hunt. The intriguing behaviour was ...