Yellow Mongooses Adaptations

Mongooses all share similar traits. Mongooses burrow into the ground to keep cool during the hot African weather. Each of the species are also hetertrophs and they eat a variety of small animals and plants. The yellow mongoose, white-tailed mongoose, and the ring-tailed mongoose are all found in Africa and share many similar adaptations such as burrowing and the ability to mark their territory and protect themselves from predators by using a gland. Yellow mongooses are a species in the herpestidae family. Yellow mongooses are commonly found in southern Africa and the climate affects how the yellow mongoose lives. The warm and dry climate means that the yellow mongoose would have to find a way to keep cool in the hot African sun. The yellow
These species also have denser fur so that when they're bitten my a venemous snake, the venom doesn't go into the blood stream and they also have strong, sharp vision in order to kill and hunt prey at night. Yellow mongooses eat ants, termites, beetles, loctuses, birds, frogs, lizards, small rhodents and eggs. Yellow mongooses are mainly insectivores but can eat other animal when necessary. Predators of the yellow mongoose include snakes and jackals. Ring-Tailed mongooses don't eat insects like the yellow mongoose does. Their diet consists of small mammals, birds, eggs, fish, frogs, fruits and reptilies. Although ring-tailed mongooses don't have any predators in their area, their population has been declining due to deforestation and loss of habitats.

Like the yellow mongoose, the white-tailed mongoose is mainly and insectivore but can eat other species such as; rhodents, snakes, lizards, small birds, fruits, and eggs. Some of the predators or threats against the yellow mongoose are humans and the young are preyed by large snakes.

These species have a similar fossil record. Each of them have the same cranial structure. Each species's fossils were discovered around seven million years ago. A common ancestor of the mongoose is the