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Related: Culture Forums, Support ForumsBaby meerkats in Botswana
OMG! The cuteness!
more:
http://www.theguardian.com/environment/gallery/2014/apr/08/baby-meerkats-in-botswana-in-pictures
SunSeeker
(51,504 posts)longship
(40,416 posts)asjr
(10,479 posts)sarge43
(28,940 posts)treestar
(82,383 posts)Love the one with the camera.
sinkingfeeling
(51,436 posts)rwsanders
(2,594 posts)Solly Mack
(90,758 posts)Love them!
cntrygrl
(356 posts)The Velveteen Ocelot
(115,576 posts)Behind the Aegis
(53,919 posts)passiveporcupine
(8,175 posts)FarrenH
(768 posts)for the correct name for mongoose babies, since meerkats aren't cats, but a species of social mongoose. Couldn't find one. So what the hell, "meerkittens" works. They were misnamed meerkats in the first place because of mistaken identification anyway ("kat" is Afrikaans/Dutch for "cat"
The Velveteen Ocelot
(115,576 posts)TDale313
(7,820 posts)I got results googling meerkat cub and babies, too, but pup seemed to have the most official looking results. (It's kinda what I remembered from occasionally watching "meerkat manor" too)
ScootersPixiePie
(20 posts)Totes adorbs.
i want a clan of 'em.
jmondine
(1,649 posts)Just sayin'. I'm an animal geek.
Skittles
(153,111 posts)yes INDEED
passiveporcupine
(8,175 posts)Brigid
(17,621 posts)Last edited Thu Apr 10, 2014, 09:43 PM - Edit history (1)
But they can also be vicious little things. Have you ever seen "Meerkat Manor?"
FarrenH
(768 posts)It made me fall in love with them
surrealAmerican
(11,357 posts)... and they love the camera: what could be better?
rudolph the red
(666 posts)840high
(17,196 posts)FarrenH
(768 posts)Sadly, not in their natural environment but in a very large enclosure at a wildlife park outside Johannesburg (the one where "Lion Whisperer" Kevin Richardson used to work). They're as animated in real life as I imagined from Meerkat Manor, so that's not just selective editing. Since they're well fed at the park, they just play all the time. My nephew's girlfriend put her hand down into the enclosure and a whole mob of them came to investigate, taking turns to sniff it. It made me sad, seeing them restricted like that. I've never really liked zoos and although the park has much bigger enclosures than an urban zoo for most of the animals (the main attraction being lions, who have several acres to roam), it's still restrictive. Still, such charming, funny animals in real life. I could have stood there watching them play for hours. Seeing the meerkats was a bigger highlight than seeing the lions.
4bucksagallon
(975 posts)Good at killing snakes, insects and rodents, wish I had a couple of them for the cobras and other venomous snakes that infrequently show up here.