#0485 · 🦊 mammals

Cape Grey Mongoose

🇳🇱 Kaapse Grijze Mangoeste ·Herpestes pulverulentus

LCleast concern 🦊 Mammals 📍 outside Europe

9 photos from iNaturalist (Creative Commons) · credits & licences

1. © Henry de Lange · CC BY 4.0
2. © Stuart Shearer · CC BY-NC 4.0
3. © Gigi Laidler · CC BY-NC 4.0
4. © Ian White · CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
5. © Wildlife Wanderer · CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
6. © Laurel PARSHALL · CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
7. © Colin Ralston · CC BY-NC 4.0
8. © Stuart Shearer · CC BY-NC 4.0
9. © Tony Rebelo · CC BY-SA 4.0

what is it?

The Cape gray mongoose ( Galerella pulverulenta ), also called the small gray mongoose , is a small mammal native to South Africa, Lesotho and southern Namibia.

base stats

NL sightings 0iNaturalist, research grade
worldwide 1,937iNaturalist observations
threat LCleast concern

Bars compare against all animals on log scales: up to 300,000 Dutch and 600,000 worldwide sightings (the most-seen species), 150 t (blue whale), 30 m and 400 years (Greenland shark).

fun facts

No confirmed wild sightings in the Netherlands on iNaturalist: you'd have to travel for this one.
1,937 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
Scientifically named by Johann Andreas Wagner in 1839 (187 years ago).