Baboon Throws Mongooses by their Tails

This baboon found itself at the wrong end of an angry mongoose family when he tried to steal their baby
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The rare sighting was captured on camera by 57-year-old Charmaine Kritzinger, a wildlife lover and enthusiast, during her everyday life in Marloth Park. Charmaine, who resides in this wildlife-rich area, shared her story and footage with LatestSightings.com.
"I was just at home, outside, enjoying the peaceful nature of Marloth Park, when something unusual caught my eye. It was a baboon, running at full speed, and to my surprise, it was carrying a dead mongoose! But that was just the beginning. Another baboon appeared, and he was chasing the large group of mongooses."
In a typical monkey see, monkey do scenario "The second baboon was trying to catch a mongoose, just like his friend. He made several attempts to catch a mongoose. He began by fist assessing them and identifying one mongoose that he was going to go for. However, it was clear that these mongooses were not going to give up without a fight; they were a family.”
“The baboon kept trying to get to the middle of the troop; at first, I could not see why. Then I saw it: a baby mongoose was being protected by its parents and family. That is what the baboon was after. The group of mongooses formed a protective barrier. They turned themselves into one large body almost interlocking themselves together. They moved as one unit; it was actually very intimidating and you could see the determination in their eyes. They were guarding the baby with their lives!”
"The determination of the baboon pushed him to try and break the barrier; he would grab a mongoose by the tail and throw it into the air. But these mongooses were too fast and regrouped before he could grab another. This continued for some time as the baboon kept grabbing the mongoose and flinging them in the air, in the hope that he would get a chance to grab the baby.”
“However, the resilience and protective instincts of the mongooses were just too much. I watched as the realisation set in for the baboon and he turned away. With a defeated look on his face and the mongoose hot on his tail, he had no option but to run away and look for an easier meal.”
"In the end, it was the mongooses who emerged victorious. They managed to fend off the baboon, ensuring the safety of their young ones. Witnessing such a rare and unexpected wildlife interaction was truly a once-in-a-lifetime experience for me."
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[@mlussini4115]

This is amazing the way they stood up all together to defend the baby. I never thought on mongoose this way ever.

[@3winanimal]

The animal kingdom teaches us that strength and strategy are the keys to survival, even if it means conflict.

[@PappyNet01]

I thought Mongoose or Mongeeses ?? were solitary animals after breeding - they moved like they were one bigger animal! I was looking for a leopard to appear on the scene! Baboons are freaky animals!

[@whyareyoureadingmynickname8158]

Handgrab really is an OP ability.

[@MrJoseph1856]

😂😂😂

[@reecom9884]

After the bigger, older and wiser baboon runs over to see what the commotion was about. He sees the younger baboon messing with the mongooses and just walks away, thinking the kid is on his own.

[@erolegario]

😂 yup

[@geoffzuo9831]

Pretty sure that according to the description the older baboon had already caught and killed a mongoose

[@RustCohle123]

Thats called teamwork, dont f with mongoose

[@AdventureswithLandon]

True

[@indiglo1971]

Mongoose or mongeese?

[@RustCohle123]

@@indiglo1971 dont give a fu about grammar

[@jinroh516]

but they were defeated

[@WeltSchmerz1349]

Stereogooses are much more dangerous, btw ☝️🤓

[@zacharybriddell98]

Awww❤ The Mongooses are sticking out for each other to try to protect their young ones.

[@ilenetehven]

🎉

[@AdventureswithLandon]

Not many demonstrate teamwork as well as the Banded Mongoose.

[@GenericDan]

True. The only creatures that probably outmatch them are African Painted Wolves. They're basically just the mongoose but bigger. (Not related though, and they don't form swarms that move like one entity)

[@AdventureswithLandon]

@@GenericDan For African Wild Dogs, 4 in 5 hunts result in a kill. They take the crown for sure.

[@brushwolf]

You obviously have never seen illegal immigrants jumping the border wall.

[@thefourfourfour9512]

Ants? Hornets? Wasps? bees? Just to name some. Its not so uncommon.

[@AdventureswithLandon]

@@thefourfourfour9512 That too

[@apollofell3925]

It's videos like these that make me glad to be a human living in a house where the most other animals ever really bother me is by chirping loudly.

[@cinema6444]

You forgot other humans bothering you.

[@apollofell3925]

@@cinema6444 that's called trespassing and depending on where you live you're allowed to shoot trespassers

[@apollofell3925]

@@fillfinish7302 yeah? What big surprise am I for?

[@melviasheppard8466]

After watching this I’m afraid to take the trash outside tonight. Even though I live in California. We normally look out for the 2 legged wild animals 🤨

[@apollofell3925]

@@melviasheppard8466 I live in Portland and I don't refer to the unhoused as "two legged animals" because I'm not an asshole. Lived in SF four years, never had anything broken into or stolen, never mugged or harassed. Walked half a block to take my trash out and never saw anything scarier than a skunk. If you're living in CA afraid to take out the trash you're either needlessly paranoid, part of a gang, or on the Richmond side of Oaktown. Seriously, I made a comment about how nice it is to have shelter and zero predators and you felt the need to make smug disparaging comments about homeless people. Get your shit together.

[@malcolmtent]

The nearby bird is telling his friends to grab their popcorn and enjoy the entertainment🍿

[@jovanblom7742]

Actually, it's a Piet-My-Vrou - the world's first transgender bird.

[@elke9499]

heeee hehe😂

[@modernaluminium3544]

Baboon was like i don't want "peace and i want problems" always 😅😂

[@user-nr3ds5ex3b]

😆😆😆😆

[@tamarasmith1686]

Team work makes the dream work😊

[@kingleoxvii2463]

Is it only me, or does it look weird that the mongoose are moving in perfect unison? Moving as one unit.

[@draco4540]

almost like a ant or bee colony

[@JR-cb1pr]

Only you, very common in nature.

[@bluntfruntac9981]

​@JR-cb1pr it looks strange to me too. The reason is because it looks like it's moving as one thing. My eye plays this illusion on my eyes with schools of fish.

[@cobwebtheorem7538]

They would make for an amazing rugby maul or rack pack!

[@KGNYC112]

It's just you, who finds it "weird"

[@BaSiC47]

Baboon behaves like a typical refugee in germany

[@TwiceSmittenOnceShy]

I’m on the floor! The flying mongoose sent me 😂🤣

[@desereekerwin1777]

LOL! Me too! 😂

[@Mythraen]

Baboon is like, "I wanna eat one of you." Mongooses are like, "then you'll have to eat all of us, and we aren't cooperating!"

[@mapalone]

The fighting mongooses. Great team name. Fry was onto something.

[@Shark_Toothed_Therapod]

Poor mongeese being picked on by a primate. Mongoose are pretty fierce for their size. Like mini hyenas.

[@Computergeek-zw3go]

funny you said that hyenas' closest relatives are mongoose, meerkats

[@Shark_Toothed_Therapod]

@@Computergeek-zw3go yep. Pretty interesting family tree they have.

[@DavidL1986]

I think it was the mongoose.. they said if it was the same size as a tiger it would have 2 to 3x the bite power. They’re amazing little animals

[@AdventureswithLandon]

@@Computergeek-zw3goHe didn’t say they’re related to Hyenas. Mongooses are related to Civets and Genets.

[@outofturn331]

Badger: hold my honey

[@johntryl8009]

Is anyone else absolutely stunned by the comprehension of the baboon that centrifugal force is a thing... i'm a lil awestruck

[@Dermot2927]

When he learned the tail-throw, it was a game-changer.

[@keystrix3704]

The baboon is just starting his own space program.

[@jaypee9575]

It looks like he's trying to isolate one in order to kill it. Do Baboons hunt for meat?

[@theodisius1]

Read the description - that's exactly what he was doing; they were protecting a baby.

[@Panelson74]

Yes, and they are cannibal to, eat there own children no problem.

[@jameshendershot4234]

Yes most primates include meat in their diet, for some it's insects, others eat small mammals and reptiles, birds and their eggs, and chimps find monkeys as a delicacy.

[@DennisBlake-bf8mp]

Don't f with riki tiki tavi and his crew! Mongooses are fearless

[@ViralZedGuy360]

Babs was just having fun lol

[@sycofya1677]

I think they all were 😂😂

[@SteveM721S]

“We stand as one!”✊

[@troylynn2686]

It’s like fighting an animal with 10 or 15 Mouths with teeth❤😂❤

[@BlessedYouTuber]

Tough mongoose. They have quick reflexes.

[@vincentrobinson3078]

LOL , what’s funny is some bird up in a tree providing the musical sound effects 😂😂😂

[@Short-N-sweetshorts2024]

Boon looking at the other boon like “bruh?! ain’t you gonna help?!” Other boon be like “umm nope!” I’m out!

[@docj72]

"Okay this is going nowhere, let's call a truce"

[@ariefraiser140]

Those mongoose formed together and attacked like Voltron.

[@floridacracker_]

Oh, their just playing swing the kids around lol

[@WildObserver-sg8kp]

Thanks for these amazing videos. Much love from the Wild Observer 🎉

[@DylansPen]

Baboon - Fling! "How you like that?" Mongoose - "I killed a King Cobra earlier today what do you think?"

[@ishmailnganga4425]

I used to listen to that bird's voice when I was growing up in my village at the slopes of Mount Kenya. Unfortunately it appears the birds migrated forever 😢

[@sayitaintso7544]

A bored Baboon bullies the Banded Mongoose instead of minding his own business

[@BubbaSatori]

It’s not the size of the mongoose in the fight, but the size of the fight in mongooses.

[@KGNYC112]

Mongoose teaming up to fend off baboons= Real life, 7 headed-dragon🔥🐉🐉🐉

[@radenakbar8666]

So according to the description, was did first monke got a dead baby mangoose or adult?

[@BabaMakhanya]

Wow! Mongooses are incredible the way they formed one body. 💪😤🔥🔥🔥

[@J242D]

Bros rly tryna hit the “so long gay bowser” 💀

[@the_sense]

Mongo: No matter what, they always stand next to each other

[@WeltSchmerz1349]

Mongooses are like medieval infantry on the battlefield, fighting as one unit. "Hold the line!!!" (and that's just mongooses! Imagine the baboon deals with stereogooses! 😱)

[@michaelkennedy6415]

This is just the mongoose version of going to the amusement park. (Their own Merry-Go-Round)

[@esxzy2453]

Mongoose tactic is on another level 😮

[@aik]

Походу чувак тренируется по метанию молота!)

[@accordblaze]

Once he figures out his little trick, the game changed 😂

[@gulsmvlogs4170]

Very nice Mongooses teamwork!

[@user-gk5ux5mf8u]

Я часто бываю в Зимбабве. Кушал там бабуинов. Очень вкусное мясо.

[@johnfrench4137]

Is this Marloth in Swellendam?

[@KeithWickliffe79]

Wow cool mongeese/mongai/mongooses 🤷🏾‍♂️

[@tb100]

Wow, tiny in size but huge together!

[@Rob-Mc]

Does that dude have a collar on?

[@jamiemonroe9236]

Wow awesome footage

[@chefmwamboje5252]

What's the name of the bird chirping

[@asyrafs9349]

The mongoose in formation reminds me of roman empire army tactics

[@malleusmaleficarum7840]

Nature's Terran Marine blob stutter step vs Protoss Colossus.🤣🤣🤣

[@scharif]

Commander Mongoose: "We have a better chance of survival if we stay together"

[@Faericai]

Okay, which one of them set the dare? And was it for the most tosses or the who can throw em the farthest? lol

[@joebullwinkle5099]

If there was ever a description of how fallen nature is, this video would be a perfect example of it.

[@Coolramvishnu]

Why was the baboon doing that?? Was it for prey or play??🤔🤔

[@johanrebel]

Portrait format Bessie bug strikes again.

[@luistomaz7293]

adorei, muito bom o video

[@matt7iron]

A Cobras Aeussez would be harrassed and intimated into a bloody Lip mess by that pack of Gooses.

[@jaredschmidt8013]

Mongoose: **has tail** Baboon: “So you have chosen death.”

[@caitlinkilkenny9433]

What? Stupid comment. As noticed by others seeing that there are no laughs in response to this ridiculously stupid comment

[@billbixby557]

He got on a good little run of three pickups with a throw in a row, he may have been looking to isolate an individual then go for the kill. I never knew Mongoose mobbed up like that..I figured them for more of a small unit society...mating season maybe? Sidenote: the guy at the end of the clip stopped and thought to himself: "...that's none of my business..." and kept walking!

[@ghteg]

Can someone help ID the bird singing in the background?

[@rocks2316]

monke strong together

[@TL-jc3po]

best team!!

[@anthonychihuahua]

Is it bad I'm laughing my ass off watching this video?! Lololol! 😆😂🤣😆

[@thefourfourfour9512]

Is it bad that I laugh my ass off when I see people wearing a mask in public?

[@user-nw1je1ur6t]

This mongoose learned the phalanx

[@therealfronzilla]

The Rikki tiki tavi family

[@3winanimal]

Wildlife combat is a brutal dance of survival where only the strongest emerge victorious.

[@CheetahWhisperer]

Mongoose protecting their young while the young baboons freaking out about a bizarre fluid conglomerate of mongoose in their territory.

[@easylistening66]

Now would that be a mongaggle of Mongeese?😅

[@zacharybriddell98]

Babboons vs Mongooses!

[@carldagroundskeeper]

Oh so this baboon can do it, but when I try it, the rangers tell me to leave the park. Yeeeeesh.

[@Shark_Toothed_Therapod]

I wonder how many people would call these mongoose cowards for fighting in a pack?🤔

[@DeBee-dc9ce]

When something is 20 times bigger than you are, and all combined about the same, It's okay.

[@alwingen8886]

Ikspi kera sakti

[@Panelson74]

Mongoose got some honey badger in it, of course a honey badger does not need back up.

[@OnlyOneGODWill118]

They assemble better than the power rangers😂😂😂😂😂😂

[@grhinson]

Nice request fullfilled

[@otakuhunter4817]

only if the herbivores fought like that

[@user-ud3gy1qq8g]

Baboon is catching mongoose by engines

[@containedhurricane]

I think the baboon was just bored

[@outofturn331]

Possible as they are brainy

[@jett2688]

I bet Australopithecus use to do this to the ancestor of baboons

[@CoryRamirez000]

0:36 What happens someone films vertically.

[@samyoung3592]

ouch

[@user-ty8te2dp8h]

Sad😢

[@F.Andre1377]

Having fun

[@themannestman]

Just another day in da ...

[@TaiLayMienTay]

Quá hay bạn ỏi👏👍🌹🔔🔔

[@marcelahildebrandt7047]

Favor traducir a español comentario

[@militarycomparisons]

baboon smart

[@zacharybriddell98]

It’s rare to see small animals defending their infants from miniature size Predators.

[@tyrannotherium7873]

Mongooses are fearsome bastards

[@christophercripps7639]

Baboon feels it is playing bop a mole game. Only these have teeth.

[@salimsalimg]

Baboon was on demon time

[@axtion_media]

Training for the Olympic hammer throw

[@danfromtheburgh]

look like he has ambition to climb the social ladder

[@boipeloramotse6240]

Why on earth would he do that?

[@theodisius1]

Read the description - he was trying to get at a baby they were protecting.

[@mrtee3988]

Look, evolutionists... it's your dad.