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The smaller terrestrial carnivores have not been studied as much as the larger ones. Of the three major families occurring in the arid areas in Africa, only the Herpestidae have been studied in any depth. The herpestids include mongooses and related small carnivores. They usually live in groups, in some of which there is considerable structure and organization (Rasa 1987a; Rood 1990).
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Bothma, J.d.P. (1998). Family Herpestidae. In: Carnivore Ecology in Arid Lands. Adaptations of Desert Organisms. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-03587-0_5
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