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   On Saturday, 14 December 2013 18:44:54 UTC, David Scheidt  wrote:   
   > Unlike most other social mongoose species, all females in a banded   
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   > mongoose group can breed.[8] They all enter oestrus around 10 days   
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   > after giving birth, and are guarded and mated by 1–3 dominant   
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   > males.[8] The dominant males monitor the females and aggressively   
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   > defend them from subordinates. While these males do most of the   
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   > mating, the females often try to escape from them and mate with other   
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   > males in the group. A dominant male will spend 2–3 days guarding each   
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   > female.[8] A guarding male will snap at, lunge at or pounce on any   
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   > males that come near.[8] A non-guarding male may follow a guarding   
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   > male and his female and may face this aggression. Non-guarding males   
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   > mate in a more secretive way.[8] This kind of "sneaking" behavior is   
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   > similar to what subordinate males of the fish species Neolamprologus   
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   > pulcher do; they also try to mate with females that are guarded by the   
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   > dominant males.   
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   > Gestation is 60–70 days. In most breeding attempts, all females give   
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   > birth either on the same day[8][12] or within a few days. Litters   
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   > range 2–6 pups and average 4. For their first four weeks of life, pups   
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   > stay in the dens. At this time they are guarded at the den by 1–3   
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   > babysitters while the other group member go on their foraging   
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   > trips.[13] After four weeks, the pups are able to go foraging   
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   > themselves. Each pup is cared for by a single adult "escort" who helps   
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   > the pup to find food and protects it from danger.[14] Pups become   
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   > nutritionally independent at three months of age.   
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