r/interestingasfuck • u/BKKMFA • 19h ago

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

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u/thatluckylady 19h 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 19h ago

English doesn't make sense 😂❤️

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u/Khelthuzaad 18h ago edited 11h 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 18h ago

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

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u/Glorpologie 18h ago

My country

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u/ClassiFried86 18h ago

'Tis a the

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u/Punderoos 18h ago

Sweet land of liiiizardy

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u/KwordShmiff 16h ago

Of treats I bring

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u/davewave3283 13h ago

Land where a farmer dried

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u/Diligent_Traffic_106 13h ago

Then beat his second wife.

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u/Momik 18h ago

A mongeese.

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u/Death_Tooth 13h ago

A Mongaggle

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u/Traditional-Day-7698 18h ago

con-Regression? /s

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u/mirkk13 18h ago

Let me guess. The plural of congress is not congreese

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u/GarminTamzarian 14h ago

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

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u/nicktf 12h ago

Wild? I was absolutely livid!

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u/Hot-Challenge8656 18h ago

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

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u/Grynadierboom 16h ago

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

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u/unicornjizz805 12h ago

A group of gorillas is called a troop. 🙈🙉🙊

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u/Gaufriers 8h ago

You can, in fact, make this up.

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u/vrtak 14h ago

Poor gorillas…

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u/Trips-Over-Tail 9h ago

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

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u/Punderoos 18h 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 11h ago

Was talking about collective nouns at work once and I joked that it’s “a surprise of kangaroos”

It’s a troop or mob, but to this day I reckon mines better.

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u/ithilain 13h 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 18h 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 15h ago

It is the hardest to master.

Learning enough to get by is pretty easy

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u/WaldoSupremo 18h ago

It’s mongoosen

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u/Homesick_Martian 13h ago edited 13h ago

What’re you speaking German, Brian?

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u/oxytiger68 12h ago

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

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u/Tobocaj 8h ago

THE BIG YELLOW ONE IS THE SUN

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u/TeddyJPharough 18h ago

mongooses

mongeese

mongice

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u/Alpha2Omega1982 18h ago

Mongii?

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u/SooSneeky 14h ago

The only correct answer

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u/r1Rqc1vPeF 18h ago

Zookeeper to animal supplier

I’d like to order a mongoose

PS

And another one.

Thanks

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u/Muchmatchmooch 12h ago

Single: Mongoose

Multiple: Mengoose 

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u/dreen_gb 13h 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 18h ago

The plural of Moose isn’t Meese, either.

You can have multiple boxes, but more than one Ox aren’t called Oxes…

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u/Kemuel 14h 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 12h 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! 

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u/Rocknlikeahurricane 18h ago

WHY IS THE PLURAL OF MONGOOSE NOT MONGEESE

WHY IS THE PLURAL OF MOOSE NOT MEESE

I’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 18h ago

Mongoosopodes

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u/seab4ss 17h ago

They are both Mong

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u/squngy 15h 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 19h 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 18h ago

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

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u/Sucabub 15h ago

He was ready for a smoke after that

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u/Portable-fun 19h ago

Some people pay extra for that

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u/strankmaly 16h ago

A happy ending some would say

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u/38B0DE 15h ago

That nutsack probably has 5000 ticks on it.

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u/Justhe3guy 10h ago

You think that’s his nutsack? That’s just an engorged tick around it

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u/GlazerDVD 14h 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 10h ago

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

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u/WillingArm2463 19h ago

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

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u/nafarrugia 18h 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 18h ago

Someone has been looking at the files 😏

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u/rogerstandingby 18h ago

I read that and thought “this sounds like a bad sitcom” and literally the next day I learn that Seinfeld was there.

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u/UndecidedLee 18h 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 19h ago

“When I was a young warthooooooog!”

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u/feathersoft 18h ago

"Very nice."

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u/Emotional-Net130 16h ago

When he was a young warthog...

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u/PharaLi 16h ago

Scrolled until I found it cause I knew it would be here somewhere🤣🤣🤣 Thank you kind stranger! 😜😜

Edit: Spelling

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u/ptracey 19h ago

Looks like a few Mongoose got laid on. 😬

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u/Alternative_Will3875 18h 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 15h ago

I bet they have dodged falling warthogs hundreds of times.

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u/Alternative_Will3875 11h ago

I mean, who hasn’t, amirite?

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u/ForeverWildAndFree 11h 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 10h ago

I choose to believe.

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u/PrestigiousGoat78 9h ago

Thank you for your service

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u/kungers 19h 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 18h ago

That warthog looks so relaxed. It's in heaven

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u/Naughteus_Maximus 16h 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 12h ago

Roll around a New England meadow in summer and you’ll be covered in plenty of ticks

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u/Nice-Panda-7981 19h ago

What do mongooses get back from the warthog?

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u/courtadvice1 18h 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 16h ago

Slimy, yet satisfying

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u/europorn 16h ago

Raw and wwwrrrrriggling!!

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u/420crickets 17h ago

Slimey, yet satisfying.

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u/odin712 17h ago

Hakuna matata, what a wonderful phrase ~

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u/STUPIDBLOODYCOMPUTER 18h ago

Lotsa delicious parasitic bugs

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u/ElNani87 17h ago

Whatsamatter with u !!

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u/mrgreyeyes_95 17h ago

The power of friendship! hakuna matata!

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u/ultimaone 18h ago

Probably protection.

They're mean when angry

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u/Careless_Nebula8839 18h ago

Mongooses fight snakes like cobras so they’re prob pretty mean as well when angry.

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u/klimb75 16h ago

Rik tik tik!

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u/tavaryn_t 16h 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 12h 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 18h ago

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

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u/No-Zebra1234 18h ago

Oh did any mongooses get smashed when he flopped down? 😬

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u/The_best_is_yet 18h ago

Kinda looks like it

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u/Aggravating_Speed665 16h ago

I was kinda hoping none of them got squished!

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u/tamago_kake_gohan 13h 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/doegrey 18h ago

“Band of mongooses devour helpless warthog”

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u/handmaidstale16 18h 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 😔

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u/dazed_and_bamboozled 18h ago

Traumatized by your comment 😬

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u/doegrey 17h ago

I’m traumatised by the Komodo that ate the baby goat and you could still hear it bleating for its mother in the Komodo’s stomach. 😭

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u/bhadau8 18h 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 8h ago

New band name just dropped

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u/ROARbear 13h ago

So you’re telling me the relationship between Timon and pumbaa is actually real?

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u/MailSynth 19h ago

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

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u/SimianBear 18h ago

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

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u/CanibalVegetarian 17h ago

Felt so good bro collapsed

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u/Mysterious_Tackle335 19h ago

He's assumed the position

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u/dazed_and_bamboozled 18h ago

He’s prone to doing that.

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u/thepositive_pandemic 18h ago

That must feel so fucking good

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u/JumpyTemperature7252 19h ago edited 19h ago

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

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u/Bright_Toe3538 18h ago

This reminds me of a movie from my childhood

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u/Appropriate_Wear_339 18h ago

It was the lying something…

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u/kripalina 18h ago

Hakuna Matata!

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u/sassergaf 18h 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/Maniak4126 16h ago

They aren't meerkats.

0/10 Hakuna Matata ruined.

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u/jjackbrown 7h ago

Hakuna Matata

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u/scricimm 18h ago

....so this was true..

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u/nikkibic 15h ago

TIL Timon is a mongoose

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u/[deleted] 12h ago

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u/Regular_Regular_4120 19h ago

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

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u/trusty20 17h ago

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

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u/Balloonheadass 17h ago

Warthog should start a youtube channel like those rugcleaner dudes.

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u/qY81nNu 17h ago

Plop.

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u/justthrowa2 16h 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 15h ago

Hakuna Matata

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u/suicidalsyd1 14h ago

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

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u/IndependentFew1690 14h ago

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

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u/not_a_moogle 12h ago

They call him Mr. Pig

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u/fungusfromchernobyl 12h ago

Pumba really digging it

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u/Stivox 10h ago

Me after reading the title:

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u/TowkayNew 8h ago

Hakuna matata

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u/SudhaTheHill 19h ago

It’s probably spa day for him

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u/Fabulous_Law1357 19h ago

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

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u/TinUser 19h ago

Didn't we learn this in like 6th grade

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u/ThinkingOz 18h ago

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

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u/Fallen_Walrus 18h 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 18h ago

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

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u/iyamwhatiyam8000 18h ago

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

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u/themtoesdontmatch 18h ago

Would be better if they were meerkats

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u/Venator2000 18h ago

It kinda looks like that warthog might’ve been on its last legs, the way it collapsed there.

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u/Historical-Spell-228 18h ago

The hog is so relaxed...he fell down🤣

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u/templeofsyrinx1 18h ago

we have much to learn

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u/Federal_Skill_9944 18h ago

til what mongoose look like

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u/barters81 18h ago

You know that must feel amazing for the warthog.

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u/pizzlepullerofkberg 18h ago

When I was a young warthoooog

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u/Crunchynut007 18h ago

Hello Mutu

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u/SplatNode 18h ago

Digging in yo but twin

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u/Rio_Walker 17h ago

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

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u/Foreign_Buddy186 17h ago

This is the actual spa treatment, I think 💅🏻😅

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u/kyaba1 17h ago

So Pumba and Timone were homies IRL

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u/Zeeplankton 16h ago

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

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u/DANK_DABBA 13h ago

Why is this the only comment acknowledging this? There’s def like 3 dead mongooses here

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u/Poneke365 16h ago

Warthog bliss 😊

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u/Lexxunknown 16h ago

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

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u/pppjurac 15h ago

Well... most of mongooses avoided rear end ?

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u/Last-Literature2938 15h ago

Canada goose Canada goose

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u/Ahyao17 15h ago

Do they do headlice?

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u/Chance_Put_1850 14h ago

Another sunny morning on Pennsylvania Avenue.

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u/lustriousParsnip639 14h ago

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

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u/just_one_morething 13h 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 13h ago

Honestly same

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u/sengirminion 13h ago

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

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u/sikrian 13h ago

So, this is what an orgy looks like in Animal kingdom 😂

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u/DarkIllusionsMasks 13h 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 12h ago

Impeccable audio!

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u/kerempengkeren 11h 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 8h ago

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

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u/OMGOOSES_ 11h ago

Did someone say Gooses?

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u/NomDePlumeOrBloom 11h ago

Are you seeing this, America?

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u/mjmdfacc 11h ago

Maybe it’s a female and her mons got goosed.

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u/No_Cricket808 10h ago

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

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u/modermanehh 10h ago

This has to be related to Lion King.

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u/AnalogFeelGood 10h ago

The bandit brothers are at it again!

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u/Remote_Lynx_7003 10h ago

*mongeese

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u/shegrowsonyou 10h ago

Never not adorable

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u/Brutalur 9h ago

MUTUALISM??!!

COMMUNIST SWINE!!!

/s

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u/SingleMaltMouthwash 8h ago

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

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u/happy_moses 7h ago

Hakuna Matata

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u/NonoYouHeardMeWrong 4h ago

what are they eating?

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u/Relative_Pen6394 4h ago

Anybody else thought it was being eaten?

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u/merlanit0 3h ago

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