Mongoose (Herpestidae)

At first I was under the impression that I was seeing meerkats of Lion King and insurance company fame - but no, these were mongooses (mongeese?).

Very skittish, they are very hard to see in the long grass and flee whenever you get remotely close.

Especially disappointing on the meerkat front was the fact that we usually saw them in the company of Pumbaa - until the realisation that a meerkat is also in the mongoose family.

So overgrown Timon.