Cusimanse are indeed great..... as for Marsh Mongoose I fear that boat has long sailed I assume you were lucky enough to see the species back in the days when they were common as dirt?
Cusimanse are indeed great..... as for Marsh Mongoose I fear that boat has long sailed I assume you were lucky enough to see the species back in the days when they were common as dirt?
I must have seen them somewhere, I was thinking Cotswold but ZTL don't list them as a former holder but Bristol had them until 2001 so I must have seen them there? Anyone know where they were housed?
I must have seen them somewhere, I was thinking Cotswold but ZTL don't list them as a former holder but Bristol had them until 2001 so I must have seen them there? Anyone know where they were housed?
Fairly so in both cases, both pale into comparison compared to meerkat numbers. Another species doing extremely well is the yellow mongoose, probably second to the meerkat in numbers!
369 European collections hold non-subspecific Suricata suricatta
82 European collections hold non-subspecific Cynictis penicillata
69 European collections hold non-subspecific Mungos mungo
5 European collections hold Mungos mungo colonus
5 European collections hold Mungos mungo mungo
53 European collections hold non-subspecific Helogale parvula
6 European collections hold Helogale parvula undulata
17 European collections hold Crossarchus obscurus
There are maybe another 6 mongoose species held in Europe in significantly lower numbers than even the last of those taxa listed above.
