{"id":9631,"date":"2020-05-13T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-05-12T22:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.kurtsafari.com\/slender-mongoose\/"},"modified":"2025-05-15T09:59:52","modified_gmt":"2025-05-15T07:59:52","slug":"mangusta-snella","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kurtsafari.com\/it\/kruger-national-park-news\/kruger-national-park-animals-guide\/slender-mongoose\/","title":{"rendered":"Mangusta snella"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Name<\/h2>\n<p>Slender Mongoose [Galerella sanguinea]\n<h2>Appearance<\/h2>\n<p>The Slender Mongoose has a brushy copper brown coat colour. It has a long slender body with a busy tail. It has a mall pointed head with round dish like ears. Males weigh 715gr and the smaller males are 575gr.<\/p>\n<h2>Diet<\/h2>\n<p>The Slender mongoose feeds primarily on small rodents, retiles and birds. They also prey on invertebrates from time to time.<\/p>\n<h2>Breeding<\/h2>\n<p>The Slender Mongooses can breed throughout the year although births are more frequent during the rainy months. It has a gestation period of 8 weeks and gives birth to 2 litters a year, each containing 2-3 young.<\/p>\n<h2>Behaviour<\/h2>\n<p>These animals are rather solitary in nature but many males will come together to defend a territory. They prefer living in wooded areas. Slender Mongoose are rather common animals that you can find near water sources during <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kurtsafari.com\">Kruger Park Safari<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h2>Habitat<\/h2>\n<p>Slender Mongoose prefer wooded environments where they can build their dens. Rock crevices, hollow trees and termite mounds are perfect for their dens. They are also known to frequent koppies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Name Slender Mongoose [Galerella sanguinea] Appearance The Slender Mongoose has a brushy copper brown coat colour. It has a long slender body with a busy tail. It has a mall pointed head with round dish like ears. Males weigh 715gr and the smaller males are 575gr. Diet The Slender mongoose feeds primarily on small rodents, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[117],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9631","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-kruger-animal-tour-guide"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kurtsafari.com\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9631","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kurtsafari.com\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kurtsafari.com\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kurtsafari.com\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kurtsafari.com\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9631"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kurtsafari.com\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9631\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kurtsafari.com\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9631"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kurtsafari.com\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9631"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kurtsafari.com\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9631"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}