{"id":9695,"date":"2020-05-18T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-05-17T22:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.kurtsafari.com\/white-tailed-mongoose\/"},"modified":"2025-05-15T09:59:56","modified_gmt":"2025-05-15T07:59:56","slug":"mangusta-dalla-coda-bianca","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kurtsafari.com\/it\/kruger-national-park-news\/kruger-national-park-animals-guide\/white-tailed-mongoose\/","title":{"rendered":"Mangusta dalla coda bianca"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Name<\/h2>\n<p>White Tailed Mongoose [Ichneumia albicauda]\n<h2>Appearance<\/h2>\n<p>There is no difference in size between the Males and the Females as they are similar visually and physically, weighing 4.3kg and 1.1m long. They have a dark grey coat colour and have distinctive long white hairs. They have black legs with the front limbs shorter than the rear.<\/p>\n<h2>Diet<\/h2>\n<p>White-tailed Mongoose have a diet that consists mostly of insects , termites, beetles, grasshoppers and crickets. They have also been known to feed on frogs, rodents and snakes.<\/p>\n<h2>Breeding<\/h2>\n<p>The White-tailed Mongoose gives birth to a litter of about 3 young after a gestation period of\u00a0 about 2 months. Mating takes place in the summer months, between November and December.<\/p>\n<h2>Behaviour<\/h2>\n<p>Not much is known about the behavioural habits of the White-tailed Mongoose aside from they are very solitary animals and live in small clans.<\/p>\n<h2>Habitat<\/h2>\n<p>The White-tailed Mongoose prefers areas near permanent water sources, near savannahs and woodlands.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Name White Tailed Mongoose [Ichneumia albicauda] Appearance There is no difference in size between the Males and the Females as they are similar visually and physically, weighing 4.3kg and 1.1m long. They have a dark grey coat colour and have distinctive long white hairs. They have black legs with the front limbs shorter than the [&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-9695","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\/9695","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=9695"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kurtsafari.com\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9695\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kurtsafari.com\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9695"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kurtsafari.com\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9695"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kurtsafari.com\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9695"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}