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Mother mongooses may risk death to protect unborn children

Mothers will do anything to protect their children, but mongooses go a step further. Mongooses risk their own survival to protect their unborn children through a remarkable ability to adapt their own bodies, says new research Ref. Source 4f.

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Banded mongooses go to war over sex, territory

Gang warfare is not unique to humans -- banded mongooses do it too. Now researchers have shed light on the causes of the fights -- and found they are most common when females are receptive to breeding and when there is competition over food and territory. Ref. Source 6v.