A dwarf mongoose exhibits a unique behavior while playing with toy eggs at the Oregon Zoo. This species is native in Angola and in the wild, it is known to act in this peculiar way to crack open eggs by launching it in the air through its legs with its forepaws, just like a football center player would do when snapping the football back from the line of scrimmage.
As you can see in the video clip provided by the Oregon Zoo, while snapping the plastic egg back, the dwarf mongoose is facing away from a rock. If the egg that it throws back were real, it would crack on impact. In this case, the activity not only provide a good “eggcercise” for the mongoose, it also help provide it with a simulation of what to do to feed in the wild.