A small carnivore likely to be seen in this area is the black-backed jackal. Apart from feeding on the kills of larger predators and gazelle fawns, jackals eat a variety of small creatures including scarab grubs which they extract from the enclosing ball of dung. Jackals have a very interesting social system as they are one of the few mammalian species in which the male and female mate for life. Four species of mongooses have been recorded in the Park. The marsh mongoose is very rare and the three most likely to be seen are the dwarf, banded and slender or black-tipped.
Banded mongooses are stocky little animals with a wiry coat marked by dark transverse bands.
They live in groups of up to 30 individuals and can often be seen following one another very closely as they move like a huge snake winding through the bush. They sometimes follow the trails of elephants and buffaloes and eat the dung beetles and millipedes which they find in the piles of droppings. The pack can roam a large area looking for food and keep in contact with each other by continual twittering. Within a pack's territory there are usually several dens between which they wander. Young are kept in the den until they are old enough to forage and it is believed that they may be suckled by different females.