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While sentries keep watch, other meerkats take care of the young. If the threat is a snake, the adults will huddle together and drive the predator away. If danger is sighted, the sentry gives a warning bark, and the meerkats flee to the safety of their burrows. When emerging from their burrows in the early morning, they tend to sunbathe before spending the day foraging for small prey.Īdults take it in turns to stand on sentry, finding a convenient vantage point where they can watch for predators, such as eagles. They usually inhabit the burrows of ground squirrels, which they enlarge by digging with their sharp claws.
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The groups consist of 2-3 family units comprising a male, a female and their 2-5 young. All females disperse, 93 of males are philopatric according to. Insects, spiders and other small animals, roots and bulbs. Capture methods and genetics reveal female bias in dispersal in slender mongoose. Distribution: Southern Africa (Angola, Namibia, South Africa and Botswana). Like all mongooses, they have long slender bodes and short limbs. Their eyes are ringed with black and they have black rounded ears and a black tip to the tail. Suricates have a tan to grey coat with brown bands on the back and sides, the head and the throat are greyish white. (Meerkat is a South African Dutch word meaning ‘lake cat’ since Meerkats are often found near stretches of water). They are adaptable and can live nearly anywhere in this wide range, but are most common in the savannah and semiarid plains.
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Suricates spend a lot of their time on guard, looking out for predators. The slender mongoose, with up to fifty subspecies, are found throughout sub-Saharan Africa, with the black mongoose of Angola and Namibia sometimes considered a separate species.