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Meerkat

Description:

The meerkat or suricate, Suricata suricatta, is a small mammal belonging to the mongoose family. 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. A group of meerkats is called a "mob", "gang" or "clan". A meerkat clan often contains about 20 meerkats, but some super-families have 50 or more members. In captivity, meerkats have an average life span of 12–14 years, and about half this in the wild.

Notes:

I took this close up of this cute guy in the Atlanta, Ga ZOO. Sorry but I was unable to correct this on the location site.

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JOHN2
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JOHN2

Georgia, USA

Spotted on May 19, 2011
Submitted on Jul 16, 2014

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