Digging in Poo

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Geo: -24.7805, 26.2697

Today we began our 9 days of leave. We left the lodge quite late today, just after 12pm. For this leave we were spending our time in Johannesburg with Paul's parents. Just after we left the lodge we stopped to watch the large troop banded mongoose by the side of the road.


It was probably the same troop that lives at our lodge. The mongooses were having a great time digging and scratching around in elephant poo. They were looking for insects to eat. They briefly stopped and looked at us, then would get back to looking for insects. It was an interesting sight.

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Photos

01 Heads Down
The mongooses have their heads down as they look for insects to eat.

02 Looking Up
Most of them now are looking up at us.

03 Pause from Digging
They are having a pause from their digging.

04 Scratching Around
The mongooses scratching around in the poo.

05 Success?
I couldn't really see many insects, maybe not a successful exercise.

06 Decision Time
The mongooses are deciding what to do - stay or go.

07 Given Up
Most of the mongooses gave up on finding insects, except for this one.