Mongooses Tear Baby Hare Apart

This is the heartbreaking scene as mongooses take turns tearing a baby hare apart - showing no mercy to the little one.

Dwarf mongooses are gregarious animals living in family groups and adhering to hierarchy. The alpha male and female are generally in charge, but this varies from circumstance to habitat to food resources. These creatures generally eat snakes, eggs, and insects and may eat rodents - but are not known to attack animals bigger than them. That in itself makes this sighting so much more special as these mongooses took turns in tearing a hare apart.

"My colleague Bushi and I were checking the reserve for fire break readiness and came across a group of mongoose on the road. As we stopped they scattered, I noticed the injured scrub hare and grabbed my camera - as I never go anywhere without it."

"It looked as if though the dominant mongoose was the only one attacking the scrub hare at this point and once he/she had their share, the next most dominant one had their turn. It took quite a long time for the hare to die - the whole scene probably took place over 30 minutes."

"A couple of mongooses then pulled the scrub hare into the grass and out of sight - as we lost sight we also then moved off. This was a very strange and rare sighting for me. I have been at Mala Mala for 4 years and have never experienced anything like this. What was strange to me though was that the mongooses took chances in attacking the hare. I half expected them to gang up on it like wild dogs."


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[NPC]

That's a special kind of scary, being slowly taken down by creatures slightly smaller than yourself, but made up for with their speed and sheer tenacity

[youlikedyourowncomment]

They dont need to blur it out, if people cant handle nature then they shouldnt watching this channel.

[alanmorris]

Whoever said animals get along better than humans didn't know what the hell they were talking about. This is a dog-eat-dog world.

[SmilotortoliniYT]

Vegans: animals deserve to be free in nature
Nature:

[hewhoshallnotbenamed]

Can't imagine a worse way to go out, being torn apart and eaten while still alive. Nature is beautiful yet unforgiving.

[somerandomperson]

American rabbits: “dog barked too loud, gonna die of a heart attack now”

African rabbits: “I am literally being eaten alive”

[ferdinand]

"Why can't humans be nice like animals?"

*The animals:*

[NathrajParsat]

Im convinced that this planet must be some kind of hell.

[lingarajdash]

Jungle looks beautiful from a distance but there are much pain and sufferings inside it.

[tinhlam]

Rabbit: Hi, who are you?
Mongooses: I'm a hyena, but smaller

[richardtaylor]

I know it is survival of the fittest, but I cannot help but feel so sorry for that poor rabbit. Could you imagine being torn apart slowly till you die. It broke my heart.

[Hi_idk_what_i_do]

could imagine my brain is saying "GO TO ANOTHER VIDEO, QUICK, PLEASE, PLEASE while my eyes are watching the whole thing going

[DeanWinchester]

"Nature is so beautiful. I want to return to nature"

The nature 💀

[tryster]

The fact he was alive for the whole video and slowly being eaten is absolutely brutal

[Virez]

I know this happens daily in nature, but the fact that it has to be alive while getting torn apart renders me crying.

[idklol]

its excruciating to see how long it lived for

[philvalentine]

All of a sudden, my Monday morning doesn't seem so bad.

[Mac]

Nature has a lot of unpleasant moments, doesn't it?

[Somebodythatyouneverknew]

Me: “RUN! DIG! DO SOMETHING!”

Bunny: “I’ll just get eaten. My gf broke up with me and now I feel nothing.”