A camera-trap study in the mountains of Southern Tanzania has now recorded Africa's least-known and probably rarest carnivore: Jackson's mongoose, known only from a few observations and museum ...

Mongoose in Botswana have radically changed scientists' understanding of how tuberculosis can be transmitted.Doctors have always thought TB was spread through the air or orally. But the mongoose study ...

A family of mongooses are forced to stand up and fight off Africa's largest eagle in mid-air as it flies off with one of their friends. Ankia Pusey, a guide in the Mjejane Game Reserve in Kruger ...

Dwarf mongoose inhabit the grasslands of southern Africa. They are Africa’s smallest carnivore. The individual pictured above lives in a new exhibit at Wildlife Conservation Society’s Prospect Park ...

Leptospirosis is the world's most common illness transmitted to humans by animals. It's a two-phase disease that begins with flu-like symptoms. If untreated, it can cause meningitis, liver damage, ...

This baboon found itself at the wrong end of an angry mongoose family when he tried to steal their baby. The rare sighting was captured on camera by 57-year-old Charmaine Kritzinger, a wildlife lover ...