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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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Do warthogs and meerkats have a symbiotic relationship?
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They have a symbiotic relationship with insects.
What countries do meerkats live in?
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They live in Africa, mostly on land just outside or on the edge of a desert where they have sand to burrow in and scrubs and a few trees for safety.
How do meerkats escape the heat?
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They go back into their burrows. When they are away from burrows they just have to run and hide hoping that a predator doesn't see them.
What are some of a meerkat's adaptations?
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Meerkats have black patches round their eyes, these act like sunglasses.
Their long, curved claws make them excellent diggers which helps them to get at burrowing insects. Other structural adaptations include the colouration of their fur that helps camouflage them from predators.
Hope this is helpful.
Is a meerkat an invertebrate?
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Meerkats are vertebrate, because they are mammals. You can tell because they are warm blooded, have hair, breathe oxygen, and give birth without eggs. They also reproduce sexually.
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The vertebrates are all the animals with BACKBONES. That is fish, amphibians, reptiles, birds and mammals
What animals do meerkats fear?
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Meerkats are scared of anything that will eat them. Snakes and birds are two things that eat a lot of meerkats, so meerkats always have guards standing on their hind legs looking around for snakes, and looking up in the sky for hawks and eagles. Other predators include different kinds of cats (caracals and wildcats) and dogs (foxes and jackals). Like most animals, meerkats are also scared of anything that is unfamiliar, or that they don't recognize. The scientists who have been studying meerkats for the past few decades are now familiar to the animals, but if they do something unusual or bring in some odd new equipment, the meerkats will be scared. One scientist wrote about a time when his hat blew off of his head in a high wind - the meerkats thought the hat was something dangerous, and they all ran over to try to drive it away the same way they would attack a snake!
What continent are meerkats from?
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Meerkats live in all parts of the Kalahari Desert in Botswana, in much of the Namib Desert in Namibia and southwestern Angola, and in South Africa.
Do meerkats from eggs?
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No. Meerkats are placental mammals, meaning they give birth to live young.
The only egg-laying mammals (monotremes) are platypuses and echidnas.
Does a meerkat have a backbone?
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Yes a Meerkat is a mammal, all mammals have backbones - they are vertebrates.
What sort of milk do baby meerkats need?
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Rat milk from their mother is best, if you can't get that then you will have to make due with something else, like cow milk.
Why is it biologically incorrect that the meerkats in a well known advert have Russian accents?
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What do meerkats do at night?
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Because meerkats are nocturnal, (meaning they rest during the day and are awake at night) during the day they burrow deep into the ground where the soil is damp, rich, cooling, and away from the hot sun. But then during the night, after the sun has gone down, and the temperature has dropped, meerkats and other nocturnal desert animals come up from beneath the ground and are ready to hunt & search for water.
How much space does a family of meerkats need in a zoo?
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When do meerkats hunt?
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No...thay live in Africa and it is always hot there so there is no use to migrate.
Do meerkats have teeth?
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Meerkats not only have tails, their tails are almost as long as their bodies! Meerkats use their long tails for balance: They stand on their hind legs and put their tail down on the ground, making their own tripod of sorts.
When a meerkat fights for dominance, its tail goes up--perhaps to make it look bigger and fiercer. When meerkats run, their tails go up, too--perhaps so other meerkats in the mob can see where the leader is headed.
