Banded Mongoose Huddle (IMAGE)

University of Exeter

Banded Mongoose Huddle

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The study suggests that older, dominant females kill entire litters to which they had not contributed offspring, but allow the communal litter to live if there is a chance that it contains their own young.

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Andy Young/University of Exeter

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