went to the zoo the other day and saw some meerkats, they are literally the best animal in the world
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One of the Meerkats from the LA Zoo!
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Meerkat close-up!
Meerkat Babies by SARhounds on Flickr.
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FUN FACTS ABOUT MEERKATS
by Crystal Gammon, OurAmazingPlanet Contributor
Family: Herpestidae
Scientific name: Suricata suricatta
Basic meerkat facts:
Meerkats are highly social and charismatic mongooses that live throughout southern Africa. Famous for their striking upright posture, meerkats also have keen senses of smell, vision and hearing.
Their diet is mostly insects, but they’ll also eat small reptiles, scorpions, eggs and plants. Their excellent sense of smell and digging skills help them find prey even when it’s hiding underground.
Adult meerkats have to teach youngsters what to eat. Moms will bring home whole foods such as insects or lizards, even scorpions, so the young meerkats can learn how to kill them without getting hurt.
Groups of two or three meerkat families, called mobs, live together in burrows. Mobs spend a lot of their time grooming and playing with each other to bond as a family unit.
When they wake early in the morning, they leave the burrow to sunbathe before heading out for a day of hunting. They have a territory of about 4 sq mi (10 sq km) and hunt in a different section each day…
(read more: Our Amazing Planet) (photo: Belfast Zoo)
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