Photo of the Day #371: Ring-tailed Mongoose

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A pair of ring-tailed mongoose (Galidia elegans), photographed at the Bronx zoo.


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Those critters are lovely. I saw a few of them not too long ago, in the Paris zoo. They're on a kind of island that looks like a cracked rock. They were running around all the time, and they really looked like they were studying the place in order to find a way to escape. I'm sure they are smart.

By Christophe Thill (not verified) on 15 Oct 2008 #permalink