My fifth and last nomination for the ‘Little Five’ is a mongoose. This is a common mongoose I captured in Kenya, and it’s the only time I was able to get a nice pose in good lighting. These small animals are famous for their bold and fearless attacks on poisonous snakes. They are quite capable of killing a king cobra and other deadly snakes. I took this picture in 1995 with a medium format film camera, the Mamiya RZ 67 II, along with a 500mm lens (equivalent to a 280mm lens in the full-frame digital format). I didn’t record the settings, but they probably were 1/250, f/8, and Fujichrome Provia 100. I read the light with a Sekonic L-358 handheld light meter. If you want to see an audacious encounter between a mongoose and three lions, check out this link. It’s less than a minute, but it’s pretty amazing. Who would have thought that the king of beasts would be so intimidated by a little mongoose!
https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/5021598/mongoose-fights-off-three-lions-kenya/
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