Mongoose play fighting with its siblings, in Delhi

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Mongoose play and fight with each other near Jama Masjid in Old Delhi, India. With the madness of Old Delhi traffic, this trio of Baby mongoose play fights and gambols together. Mongoose is the popular English name for 29 of 34 species in the 14 genera of the family Herpestidae, which are small carnivorans that are native to southern Eurasia and mainland Africa. The other five species in the family are the four kusimanses in the genus Crossarchus, and the only species in the genus Suricata: Suricata suricatta, commonly called meerkat in English. Six species in family Eupleridae, endemic to the island of Madagascar, are also called "mongoose" and were originally classified as a genus within the Herpestidae family, but genetic evidence has since shown that they are more closely related to o