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What do meerkates eat?

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The Meerkat usually eats insects if they can be find them. They will forage by digging among leaves, dirt, dry grasses, bark, pebbles, and anything that small bugs can hide in. The Meerkats do forage in small groups with one lookout, and take turns pulling duty as the lookout changing about every hour or so. They will also eat lizards, snakes, Spiders, eggs, small or baby mammals, scorpions, millipedes, centipedes, plants and roots. If it is available, and they will eat small birds too. The Meerkat appears to be immune to most venomous scorpion bites. For more details, please see the sites listed below. Most Meerkats can eat things that can be poisonous to other animals.
Meerkats eat mostly insects. But they also eat reptiles (lizards and snakes), arachnids (scorpions and spiders) as well as the eggs of different animals. Small mammals and, if they can catch them, small birds also appear in the diet. So do some plants. They also eat flys and other little insects.
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Meerkats eat insects such as ants, They also eat arthripodes such as centipedes millipedes. And last but not least they eat worms and caterpillars.

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