Object of desire

While I was taking pictures of a family of banded mongooses over a termite mount, a group of "rebels" bad boys that were part of the same family came from behind and started checking out my gear I was not using at that moment and I had carefully placed on the ground. They were literally "all over" the camera. They got inside the lens cover, bite the soft rubber part of the eyepiece, the shoulder strap, etc. In less than two minutes, there was dust and dirt in places I didn't even know existed! Weeks after I was back in the US I was still cleaning dust out of this baby. The pictures are still very funny and brings me a lot of fun memories.