RE: 📷 Banded Mongoose of Africa

[motordrive]

These are awesome pictures! It's so cool how you can just casually go and see mongoose (geese?) and monkeys; where I am, it's just a bunch of small birds or squirrels, maybe the odd rabbit...

(kryptonia: motordrive)

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[joanstewart]

Traveling into protected wildlife areas, it is what you see on the day @motordrive having a little luck.

The form of the English name (since 1698) was altered to its "-goose" ending by folk-etymology. It has no etymological connection with the word goose. Historically, it has also been spelled "mungoose". The plural form is mongooses, or, rarely, mongeese.