Tuesday, March 27, 2012

Back yard/porch animals

Mongoose
 In our yard we have an abandoned chicken house in which a  little herd (troop? pack?) of about 20 mongooses lives.  They spend hours each day prowling through every leaf and blade of grass in our yard searching for termites, snakes, and other tasty morsels.  Unfortunately, they do tend to root around and dig a bit, so they mess things up in the garden and make holes under the fence, but they are pretty adorable when they are scampering around and periodically go up on their hind legs for a better look around the yard!  There are at least two other varieties of mongooses around our yard, too - little brown ones and bigger gray ones with bushy tails.

Stick bug
This is a bug.  We call it a stick bug, but it might have a different (i.e. more official) name.  If you would like to see a video of it moving around, you can go to: http://youtu.be/XCBh38hL8CA

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