Common Name: Mongoose. This species is confined to southern Africa, with a marginal intrusion into extreme southwestern Angola. Within this range, it occupies the drier western parts, being widespread in Namibia, Botswana and much of central and western South Africa, but absent from the Namib Desert and Caprivi Strip in Namibia, the Okavango Delta in Botswana, Zimbabwe (except for an extreme western record), and the easterly regions of southern Africa. It is probably extinct from Lesotho.