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Meerkats
A meerkat is not feline at all, but is a suricate, a member of the mongoose family. Diurnal, highly gregarious, and territorial, they live in the dry, open country of southwestern Angola, Namibia, Botswana, and South Africa.
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How high can a bison jump?
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They can jump close to 6 feet vertical, which much higher than cattle. This is the main reason why a bison producer has to have his or her bison handling facility fences at a height of 8 feet to handle bison.
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A bison normally would respect a fence unless he is pressured in such a way that he and the rest of his herd need to find some way to escape, or if he's alone in a pasture and is desperate to get to his herd which is on the other side of the fence. A bison will even wreck a solid board fence in a bison handling facility if he can't see his herd-mates when being pushed through to the squeeze.
Is a meerkat a herbivores?
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The meerkat is an omnivore. This means that they eat both meat and plants. The diet of a meerkat can consist of lizards, rodents, fruits, berries, leaves, and eggs.
What natural enemies does a meerkat have?
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What burrowing marsupial is found only in the northern Queensland and south-eastern and central Australia?
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The red-tailed phascogale is a tiny carnivorous marsupial found only in remnants of Wandoo or Rock oak woodland in far southwest Western Australia.
The numbat is also found in similar territory but, strictly speaking, it is insectivorous rather than carnivorous, as it is a specialist feeder, eating only termites.
Do meerkats like the hot desert?
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Meerkats can survive in the desert because of the food supply there. Meerkats eat bugs, like beetles, centipedes, millipedes, and other gross bugs. Also, if it gets too hot, there are trees waiting to give them shade. At night, many predators are out and it is very cold, so mmerkats huddle together in an underground burrow to keep warm.
What does meerkat mean in south african?
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The literal translation is "lake cat", but is the name of the suricate a member of the mongoose family. It's a small (about 1.5 pounds) carnivorous mammal that lives in Botswana, Namibia, and South Africa.
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In Afrikaans meerkat generally translates to marsh cat.
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Meer has a few meanings in Afrikaans - it can mean 'more' or 'like'
Kat is exactly what it sounds like - cat
So a meerkat is a cat-like animal
Meerkat - In the Afrikaans language (derived from African dialects and Dutch population in South Africa) from the Dutch word meercatte, meaning "sea cat" or "lake cat."
The English equivalent is meercat. The meerkat or suricate Suricata suricatta is a small mammal and a member of the mongoose family. It inhabits all parts of the Kalahari Desert in Botswana and South Africa.
"Marsh cat" would be a rough translation. The word is derived from the Dutch meercatte, which means "sea cat" or "lake cat".
It is composed of two words namely 'meer' which means lake or dam and 'kat' which means cat. The word "meerkat" is the same in English as it is in Afrikaans - it's pronounced meeer-kat in both languages.
The Dutch misidentified the suricate, a member of the mongoose family as a member of the Cercopithecus genus. Meerkat means "lake cat", but the animal lives primarily in arid semi-desert areas.
What does mearkat mean in soulth Africa?
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Meerkats original come from south Africa, so meerkat means meerkat in south Africa
What is the name of the cat in The Rescuers?
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Her name was Sassy, and she was a Himalayan, if you wanted to know. : )
Where are meerkats in South Africa?
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They live in the Kalahari Desert in underground burrows.
Will there be a season five for meerkat manor?
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I contacted the Discovery Planet. They replied stating that the series has been put on the shelf for now. They are not sure whether or not it will continue. I suggest that if you are a fan as I am you write to them. They told me that my letter would be sent to the program directors so they are aware of my interest in the series. Everyone who enjoys this series needs to write to Discovery or Animal Planet.
No they have decided to stop the series since of August 2009.
I sent an e-mail to Animal Planet in early August 2009. I was informed that the series stopped being filmed in 2008 (it's true- season 4 was filmed from September 2007 to February 2008). Meerkat Manor was cancelled. There is a petition addressed to network executives to help bring it back. The link is:
http://www.thepetitionsite.com/19/Bring-Back-Meerkat-ManorBringBring
Do warthogs eat meerkats?
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No, but in the Lion King, Timon the Meerkat and Pumbaa the Warthog are friends.
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What ecosystems does meerkat lives in?
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They adapted to the desert biome in Africa.
What does meerkats eat?
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•Meerkats are primarily insectivores, but also eat lizards, snakes, scorpions, spiders, plants, eggs, small mammals, millipedes, centipedes and, more rarely, small birds.
•Meerkats are primarily insectivores, but also eat lizards, snakes, scorpions, spiders, plants, eggs, small mammals, millipedes, centipedes and, more rarely, small birds.
A meerkat eats insects like ants... also scorpions... and if they are REALLY LUCKY... maybe even a snake!
they eat beetles
What do meerkats eat in zoos?
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Meerkats eat mostly bugs and insects like scorpion, spiders, millipedes, centipedes, and other protein/meat sourced foods such as lizards, snakes, eggs, small mammals, and sometimes small birds. They also eat plants and fruit.
Meerkats find food in groups to guard each other while getting eggs and insects out of trees.
Baby Meerkats do not start to hunt until till they are one month old.
A full grown meerkat will eat up to thirty items of food a day because the loose about a 5% of their weight when they sleep and because they are almost always moving.
Also meerkats eat eachothers poo.
Food chain for meerkat?
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Do you want to know where on the food chain meerkats fit? Meerkats are not an easy one in this regard. They fit, in fact, somewhere near the middle.
This is due to the fact that they are both prey and predator animals. They're small so they look more like prey but they have one very specific, not to mention special, characteristic that makes them far more able to fight upwards along that food chain than do most small mammals--they are members of the mongoose family. And mongooses are tougher than even any honey badger [for example] can lay claim.
For one thing, meerkats are immune to the poison of scorpions. That pushes them up right there. For another they are extremely well adapted to their sandy, dusty environment.
At the related link below is good, clear and immediate information about meerkats.
Are meerkats camouflaged?
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i guess they blend in with the dry grass in the desert but other than that if a hawk looks in its direction it will spot the meerkat (s).
