Mongoose: The Story Of An Unlikely Predator | Our World

Subscribe to Our World: A cobra’s venom can kill a man in minutes, yet a pack of banded mongooses will mob one with confidence. The Martial eagle can easily kill a single mongoose but it often confounded by a team. Uniting as one is the banded mongooses’ greatest strength. Wilderness Warriors follows the fortunes of one pack of banded mongooses out in the Musiara Marsh in Kenya’s Maasai Mara. The group is lead by a dominant female who has a close relationship with the top male. She is usually one of the first to emerge every morning and she will decide when they will head off and where they’ll go. The marsh is a favoured hunting ground and snails are a favourite food. The mongooses can’t crack the shells with their teeth but they are inventive tool users and smash the shells against rocks. Crocodile eggs are broken in the same way, hairy caterpillars are rubbed in the sand to get rid of the irritating bristles and snakes are tackled co-operatively. The birth o