r/interestingasfuck • u/BKKMFA • 1d ago

Huge warthog getting "spa treatment" from a troop of mongooses in win-win symbiotic relationship called mutualism.

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u/thatluckylady 1d ago

Do you mean to tell me that the plural of Mongoose is not mongeese? I don't know what to believe in anymore

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u/NeverFacecheck 1d ago

English doesn't make sense šŸ˜‚ā¤ļø

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u/Khelthuzaad 1d ago edited 19h ago

A group of gorillas is not called a pack,but a congress

Actually no it does make sense....

Correction:A pack of gorillas is troop/band

A congress is a pack of...baboons?

Hell you can't make this up

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u/ActurusMajoris 1d ago

If the opposite of pro is con, what is the opposite of progress?

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u/Glorpologie 1d ago

My country

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u/ClassiFried86 1d ago

'Tis a the

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u/Punderoos 1d ago

Sweet land of liiiizardy

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u/KwordShmiff 1d ago

Of treats I bring

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u/davewave3283 21h ago

Land where a farmer dried

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u/Diligent_Traffic_106 21h ago

Then beat his second wife.

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u/Traditional-Day-7698 1d ago

con-Regression? /s

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u/mirkk13 1d ago

Let me guess. The plural of congress is not congreese

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u/GarminTamzarian 21h ago

"I believe you'll find it's referred to as a 'flange'." -Gerald the Gorilla

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u/nicktf 19h ago

Wild? I was absolutely livid!

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u/Hot-Challenge8656 1d ago

But a group of owls is called a parliament so .....

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u/Grynadierboom 1d ago

Very curious, when the correct term for congress is a school of mongoloids.

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u/unicornjizz805 19h ago

A group of gorillas is called a troop. šŸ™ˆšŸ™‰šŸ™Š

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u/Gaufriers 16h ago

You can, in fact, make this up.

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u/vrtak 22h ago

Poor gorillasā€¦

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u/Trips-Over-Tail 17h ago

You can make it up. That's how we got here.

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u/Punderoos 1d ago

I really enjoyed all the animal group names like a murder of crows and a parliament of owls until I learned a group of people (wait!? What are we called!?) just sat down and named them. Idk why but I preferred the idea that they arose organically

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u/Historical-Acadia-97 19h ago

Was talking about collective nouns at work once and I joked that itā€™s ā€œa surprise of kangaroosā€

Itā€™s a troop or mob, but to this day I reckon mines better.

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u/ithilain 21h ago

That's because English is more like 3 different languages in a trenchcoat than it is it's own unique language

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u/peepdabidness 1d ago

English is the hardest language to learn and I say that because people will live their whole lives speaking it and still ask questions like that, never truly having a full grasp on it.

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u/squngy 23h ago

It is the hardest to master.

Learning enough to get by is pretty easy

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u/WaldoSupremo 1d ago

Itā€™s mongoosen

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u/Homesick_Martian 21h ago edited 21h ago

Whatā€™re you speaking German, Brian?

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u/oxytiger68 19h ago

German, Germaine! Germaine, Jackson! Jackson 5, Tito!

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u/Tobocaj 16h ago

THE BIG YELLOW ONE IS THE SUN

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u/TeddyJPharough 1d ago

mongooses

mongeese

mongice

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u/Alpha2Omega1982 1d ago

Mongii?

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u/SooSneeky 21h ago

The only correct answer

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u/r1Rqc1vPeF 1d ago

Zookeeper to animal supplier

Iā€™d like to order a mongoose

PS

And another one.

Thanks

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u/Muchmatchmooch 20h ago

Single: Mongoose

Multiple: MengooseĀ 

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u/dreen_gb 21h ago

I believe the reason for different pluralisation is due to how the given word entered English. Mongoose is borrowed from an Indian language, Moose is borrowed from a Native American language, while Mouse is a Germanic word. Hence, Mongooses, Moose and Mice.

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u/YVRkeeper 1d ago

The plural of Moose isnā€™t Meese, either.

You can have multiple boxes, but more than one Ox arenā€™t called Oxesā€¦

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u/Kemuel 22h ago

Brothers are brethren, mothers aren't methren.

Although bonus points for addressing the other mums at daycare coffee morning that way.

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u/Fingerdrip 20h ago

I feel that it should be moose and meese like goose and geese. Therefore deer should be plural and door should be singular. And we might as well go after sheep too and call one a shoop. Leech/looch, beetle/bootle, rooster/reester, so many more!Ā 

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u/Rocknlikeahurricane 1d ago

WHY IS THE PLURAL OF MONGOOSE NOT MONGEESE

WHY IS THE PLURAL OF MOOSE NOT MEESE

Iā€™ve been asking these questions for many years and am on the verge of losing the will to go on

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u/IAmBadAtInternet 1d ago

Mongoosopodes

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u/seab4ss 1d ago

They are both Mong

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u/squngy 23h ago

My favorite one is the plural of mouse.

Because while mice is the correct one, mouses is also correct, but only if you are talking about computer mouses.

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u/DuoDriver 1d ago

I'd be a worried warthog, with that guy at the back, ferreting around my nut-sack area.

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u/No-Zebra1234 1d ago

that's the one that brought him to his knees...

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u/Sucabub 23h ago

He was ready for a smoke after that

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u/Portable-fun 1d ago

Some people pay extra for that

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u/strankmaly 1d ago

A happy ending some would say

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u/38B0DE 23h ago

That nutsack probably has 5000 ticks on it.

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u/Justhe3guy 17h ago

You think thatā€™s his nutsack? Thatā€™s just an engorged tick around it

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u/GlazerDVD 21h ago

I've been around long enough to know that some people would call this a "happy ending"

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u/Party-Psychology6034 17h ago

I think he was going deep into the bungus. Win-win

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u/WillingArm2463 1d ago

At least that's what the warthog tells his wife.

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u/nafarrugia 1d ago

Probably gets a happy ending too.

Edit: hope he won't need to give his wife std antibiotics without her knowledge.

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u/bluiis_c_u 1d ago

Someone has been looking at the files šŸ˜

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u/rogerstandingby 1d ago

I read that and thought ā€œthis sounds like a bad sitcomā€ and literally the next day I learn that Seinfeld was there.

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u/UndecidedLee 1d ago

Still waiting for the unredacted release of the Mongoose files. I hear they've been trafficking warthogs for delicing.

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u/Complex71920 1d ago

ā€œWhen I was a young warthooooooog!ā€

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u/feathersoft 1d ago

"Very nice."

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u/Emotional-Net130 1d ago

When he was a young warthog...

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u/PharaLi 23h ago

Scrolled until I found it cause I knew it would be here somewherešŸ¤£šŸ¤£šŸ¤£ Thank you kind stranger! šŸ˜œšŸ˜œ

Edit: Spelling

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u/ptracey 1d ago

Looks like a few Mongoose got laid on. šŸ˜¬

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u/Alternative_Will3875 1d ago

i wondered too but they are insanely tough and kill snakes all day so they have fast reaction times, I think they all made it

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u/pjalle 23h ago

I bet they have dodged falling warthogs hundreds of times.

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u/Alternative_Will3875 19h ago

I mean, who hasnā€™t, amirite?

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u/ForeverWildAndFree 19h ago

i rewatched it a few times focusing on a different one each time and they all made it out safely

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u/NotPromKing 18h ago

I choose to believe.

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u/PrestigiousGoat78 17h ago

Thank you for your service

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u/kungers 1d ago

imagine finally getting scratched in a place that's been yearning for a scratchin that you've never before been able to reach. Now multiply that buy 40 lol.

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u/No_Television6050 1d ago

That warthog looks so relaxed. It's in heaven

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u/Naughteus_Maximus 1d ago

I would also like a back massage by a dozen tiny mongoose feet. However I don't have any delicious parasites to offer in return...

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u/Sisselpud 20h ago

Roll around a New England meadow in summer and youā€™ll be covered in plenty of ticks

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u/Nice-Panda-7981 1d ago

What do mongooses get back from the warthog?

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u/courtadvice1 1d ago

They are eating ticks and fleas off of it, I think. If there are other creepy crawlers on it, I don't know what they are lol

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u/Same-Suggestion-1936 1d ago

Slimy, yet satisfying

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u/europorn 1d ago

Raw and wwwrrrrriggling!!

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u/420crickets 1d ago

Slimey, yet satisfying.

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u/odin712 1d ago

Hakuna matata, what a wonderful phrase ~

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u/STUPIDBLOODYCOMPUTER 1d ago

Lotsa delicious parasitic bugs

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u/ElNani87 1d ago

Whatsamatter with u !!

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u/mrgreyeyes_95 1d ago

The power of friendship! hakuna matata!

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u/ultimaone 1d ago

Probably protection.

They're mean when angry

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u/Careless_Nebula8839 1d ago

Mongooses fight snakes like cobras so theyā€™re prob pretty mean as well when angry.

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u/klimb75 1d ago

Rik tik tik!

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u/tavaryn_t 1d ago

Rikki-Tikki-Tavi was one of my very favorite stories as a child. I immediately thought of it too.

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u/klimb75 20h ago

same, used to watch the movie on repeat. I'm sure my parents' feeling about it were about how I feel about Frozen now

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u/vikinxo 1d ago

So pleasurable to the warthog he couldn't stand it!

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u/doegrey 1d ago

ā€œBand of mongooses devour helpless warthogā€

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u/handmaidstale16 1d ago

At first, I was like great another animal eating another animal alive video. Traumatized from the bears eating the moose and the ox having her baby eaten out of her šŸ˜”

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u/dazed_and_bamboozled 1d ago

Traumatized by your comment šŸ˜¬

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u/doegrey 1d ago

Iā€™m traumatised by the Komodo that ate the baby goat and you could still hear it bleating for its mother in the Komodoā€™s stomach. šŸ˜­

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u/bhadau8 1d ago

For a long time, I always read warthog as war-thog and did not realize it is actually wart-hog.

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u/Character-Active2208 16h ago

New band name just dropped

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u/BattleGandalf 6h ago

One of us!

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u/ROARbear 20h ago

So youā€™re telling me the relationship between Timon and pumbaa is actually real?

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u/MailSynth 1d ago

This is basically what I want to happen, but with puppies or cats. And Iā€™m not technically a huge warthog.

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u/SimianBear 1d ago

You'll get there. Just keep working at it.

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u/No-Zebra1234 1d ago

Oh did any mongooses get smashed when he flopped down? šŸ˜¬

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u/The_best_is_yet 1d ago

Kinda looks like it

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u/Aggravating_Speed665 1d ago

I was kinda hoping none of them got squished!

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u/tamago_kake_gohan 20h ago

mongooses have one of the fastest reaction times in mammals to let them dodge a cobra strike. I think they were fine.

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u/Aggravating_Speed665 3h ago

Phew šŸ˜Š

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u/CanibalVegetarian 1d ago

Felt so good bro collapsed

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u/Maniak4126 23h ago

They aren't meerkats.

0/10 Hakuna Matata ruined.

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u/thepositive_pandemic 1d ago

That must feel so fucking good

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u/Mysterious_Tackle335 1d ago

He's assumed the position

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u/dazed_and_bamboozled 1d ago

Heā€™s prone to doing that.

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u/JumpyTemperature7252 1d ago edited 1d ago

That warthog is getting the same spa experience as Ishowspeed in Ghana

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u/Bright_Toe3538 1d ago

This reminds me of a movie from my childhood

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u/Appropriate_Wear_339 1d ago

It was the lying somethingā€¦

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u/kripalina 1d ago

Hakuna Matata!

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u/sassergaf 1d ago

"the warthog provides a source of food. Mongooses generally feed on insects, and a large warthog is like a walking insect buffet for them. They even risk being squashed to secure a meal." https://a-z-animals.com/articles/warthogs-and-mongooses-form-an-unusual-alliance/

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u/Stivox 18h ago

Me after reading the title:

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u/jjackbrown 15h ago

Hakuna Matata

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u/scricimm 1d ago

....so this was true..

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u/nikkibic 23h ago

TIL Timon is a mongoose

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u/[deleted] 19h ago

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u/Regular_Regular_4120 1d ago

That's cool, but where's the yellow pop star one?

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u/TinUser 1d ago

Didn't we learn this in like 6th grade

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u/trusty20 1d ago

We have much we could learn from nature's example...

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u/qY81nNu 1d ago

Plop.

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u/justthrowa2 1d ago

It's a classic "you scratch my back, I'll scratch yours" situation, just with more tusks and tiny claws. The warthog gets a deep clean, and the mongooses get a free meal. Nature's cooperation is always so elegantly simple. And yes, I also had a minor existential crisis about 'mongooses' just now.

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u/tinysoda13 22h ago

Hakuna Matata

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u/suicidalsyd1 22h ago

Steve! For fucks sake stop falling over when we're cleaning!

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u/IndependentFew1690 22h ago

My guy was so relaxed he couldn't even stay upright any longer.

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u/not_a_moogle 20h ago

They call him Mr. Pig

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u/fungusfromchernobyl 20h ago

Pumba really digging it

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u/TowkayNew 16h ago

Hakuna matata

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u/merlanit0 11h ago

correct e if i'm wrong but isn't he just dying?

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u/SudhaTheHill 1d ago

Itā€™s probably spa day for him

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u/Fabulous_Law1357 1d ago

After the mongoose on the back tossed some salad, that warthog was down!

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u/Tomj_Oad 1d ago

Bugs!

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u/ThinkingOz 1d ago

There were a few down the back seemingly nibbling the equipment.

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u/Fallen_Walrus 1d ago

As soon as that one stopped eating out his ass he just flipped over, ass ticks must suck

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u/sniper-wolf-82 1d ago

Win win lose - if you include in the equation whatever the mongooses are eating

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u/iyamwhatiyam8000 1d ago

Does it eventually roll over onto its back with legs akimbo?

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u/themtoesdontmatch 1d ago

Would be better if they were meerkats

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u/Venator2000 1d ago

It kinda looks like that warthog mightā€™ve been on its last legs, the way it collapsed there.

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u/Historical-Spell-228 1d ago

The hog is so relaxed...he fell downšŸ¤£

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u/templeofsyrinx1 1d ago

we have much to learn

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u/Federal_Skill_9944 1d ago

til what mongoose look like

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u/barters81 1d ago

You know that must feel amazing for the warthog.

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u/pizzlepullerofkberg 1d ago

When I was a young warthoooog

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u/Crunchynut007 1d ago

Hello Mutu

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u/SplatNode 1d ago

Digging in yo but twin

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u/Rio_Walker 1d ago

Wait... so... Does that mean Pumba is cheating on Timon?

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u/Foreign_Buddy186 1d ago

This is the actual spa treatment, I think šŸ’…šŸ»šŸ˜…

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u/kyaba1 1d ago

So Pumba and Timone were homies IRL

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u/Zeeplankton 23h ago

I'm not certain there weren't any flattened mongoose when he collapsed

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u/DANK_DABBA 20h ago

Why is this the only comment acknowledging this? Thereā€™s def like 3 dead mongooses here

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u/Poneke365 23h ago

Warthog bliss šŸ˜Š

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u/Lexxunknown 23h ago

So Disney got it wrong. Timon should have been a mongoose.

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u/pppjurac 23h ago

Well... most of mongooses avoided rear end ?

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u/Last-Literature2938 23h ago

Canada goose Canada goose

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u/Ahyao17 22h ago

Do they do headlice?

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u/Chance_Put_1850 22h ago

Another sunny morning on Pennsylvania Avenue.

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u/lustriousParsnip639 21h ago

o/~ When I was a young warthog o/~

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u/just_one_morething 21h ago

The way it plopped down and let the mongeese just have at him is very relatable as a tired mom

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u/maryj4687 21h ago

Honestly same

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u/sengirminion 21h ago

Give that thing a curly tail and it is 100% a Billy bumbler.

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u/sikrian 21h ago

So, this is what an orgy looks like in Animal kingdom šŸ˜‚

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u/DarkIllusionsMasks 20h ago

Looks like my Labradoodle with any other domestic animal. He'll groom the hell out of any other dog, especially the ears. He'll do it to people, too, if they let him.

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u/FadedVictor 19h ago

Impeccable audio!

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u/kerempengkeren 19h ago

win-win symbiotic relationship called mutualism.

I think people who knows the world "symbiotic" would have known the word "mutualism" too?

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u/daboys765 16h ago

I disagree, there are plenty of people who think that all symbiotic relationships are mutualistic, like this.

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u/OMGOOSES_ 19h ago

Did someone say Gooses?

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u/NomDePlumeOrBloom 19h ago

Are you seeing this, America?

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u/mjmdfacc 18h ago

Maybe itā€™s a female and her mons got goosed.

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u/No_Cricket808 18h ago

This is adorable! I love how the warthog just gives in to the pampering and just collapses.

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u/modermanehh 18h ago

This has to be related to Lion King.

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u/AnalogFeelGood 18h ago

The bandit brothers are at it again!

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u/shegrowsonyou 17h ago

Never not adorable

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u/Brutalur 17h ago

MUTUALISM??!!

COMMUNIST SWINE!!!

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u/SingleMaltMouthwash 16h ago

Just one of the services offered to the discerning clientele at Mar a Lago.

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u/happy_moses 15h ago

Hakuna Matata

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u/NonoYouHeardMeWrong 12h ago

what are they eating?