Mongooses Tear Baby Hare Apart
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Published 2022-08-09
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Dwarf mongooses are gregarious animals living in family groups and adhering to hierarchy. The alpha male and female are generally in charge, but this varies from circumstance to habitat to food resources. These creatures generally eat snakes, eggs, and insects and may eat rodents - but are not known to attack animals bigger than them. That in itself makes this sighting so much more special as these mongooses took turns in tearing a hare apart.
29-Year-old conservation officer and field guide, Gareth Nuttall-Smith shared this sighting from @MalaMalaGameReserve with LatestSightings.com:
"My colleague Bushi and I were checking the reserve for fire break readiness and came across a group of mongoose on the road. As we stopped they scattered, I noticed the injured scrub hare and grabbed my camera - as I never go anywhere without it."
"It looked as if though the dominant mongoose was the only one attacking the scrub hare at this point and once he/she had their share, the next most dominant one had their turn. It took quite a long time for the hare to die - the whole scene probably took place over 30 minutes."
"A couple of mongooses then pulled the scrub hare into the grass and out of sight - as we lost sight we also then moved off. This was a very strange and rare sighting for me. I have been at Mala Mala for 4 years and have never experienced anything like this. What was strange to me though was that the mongooses took chances in attacking the hare. I half expected them to gang up on it like wild dogs."
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All Comments (21)
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"Why can't humans be nice like animals?" The animals:
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They dont need to blur it out, if people cant handle nature then they shouldnt watching this channel.
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The fact he was alive for the whole video and slowly being eaten is absolutely brutal
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This planet is truly a flying ball of horrors...
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That's a special kind of scary, being slowly taken down by creatures slightly smaller than yourself, but made up for with their speed and sheer tenacity
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American rabbits: “dog barked too loud, gonna die of a heart attack now” African rabbits: “I am literally being eaten alive”
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The bunny:*screams in pain* Also the bunny:🍷🗿
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Nature truly is absolutely merciless.
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Can't imagine a worse way to go out, being torn apart and eaten while still alive. Nature is beautiful yet unforgiving.
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Jungle looks beautiful from a distance but there are much pain and sufferings inside it.
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This is the kind of video that vegetarians who think animal agriculture is cruel should watch.
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Rabbit: Hi, who are you? Mongooses: I'm a hyena, but smaller
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I see why rabbits sometimes just have heart attacks right away when stressed rather than going on that long..
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1:00 I love how the hare is being actively murdered and is just staring at the camera man like "can you help me".
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You can see the pain in the bunny's eyes at the end, damn.
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"Nature is so beautiful. I want to return to nature" The nature 💀
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I know it is survival of the fittest, but I cannot help but feel so sorry for that poor rabbit. Could you imagine being torn apart slowly till you die. It broke my heart.
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Mongoose "this is for subaru!!!"
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Bro those mongoose be like “ F O O D “
