• Question: if mongooses burrow, do they have rooms dedicted to things like ant colonies?

    Asked by anon-348206 to Amy on 17 Feb 2023.
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      Amy Morris-Drake answered on 17 Feb 2023:


      Great question, the mongooses sleep in abandoned termite mounds. Similar to ant colonies, termites have different rooms in the mounds they build. We haven’t been able to put a camera down a termite mound when the mongooses are sleeping in it, but my gut feel is that they all sleep huddled together in one of the rooms.

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