| When meerkat pups begin accompanying the group, they beg food from older group members, who dig up dispersed prey items. |
|
| The animals, a meerkat and a guinea pig, cannot bear to be apart from each other and whine uncontrollably when they are parted. |
|
| Some experts now divide this large, diverse family into two, with the mongoose, meerkat and cusimanse in the Herpestidae Family. |
|
| Later, as the sounds drop in pitch, meerkat parents modify the type of food they give their offspring. |
|
| During the day, meerkats forage for food or play while one meerkat stands guard. |
|
| But people still want to believe in anthropomorphic fables about animal behaviour, so zoology has provided one or two of its own to replace those it has destroyed. One of the most famous of these is the myth of the meerkat. |
|
| Most members of a group are relatives, and group members know one another well. The myth has therefore grown up that meerkat sentinel behaviour is a good example of altruism at work. |
|
| And when that guard, too, gives up, the first animal is as likely as any other in the group to be the one that replaces him. This result does not destroy the myth of the meerkat completely. |
|
| Meerkats are carnivorous animals that eat small vertebrates and invertebrates, and very young meerkat pups, which cannot find their own prey, are fed by older meerkats called helpers. |
|
| Like most bikers, the meerkat lives with his own rules. |
|
| Simba the lion cub, a playful and charming hero, is portrayed alongside his loved ones: his father Mufasa, majestic and imposing, and his faithful friends, Timon the meerkat and Pumbaa the warthog. |
|
| The other new animals added to the zoo are the Pygmy Marmoset from Latin America, meerkat and Kobus Kob from South Africa. |
|
| The meerkat, also called suricate, is the TAAC's seal for three reasons: it exhibits sentinel behaviour, it is living in a highly social developed organization, it has human attitudes as well as human-like ears. |
|
| Marta Manser crouches in the dry grass, watching a cat-sized meerkat sniff for its breakfast. |
|
| By playing back tape recordings of cries of the incorrect pitch, researchers succeeded in tricking meerkat parents into feeding their babies with the wrong type of prey. |
|
| Meerkats Don't Fly is a charming children's picturebook about Benny, a young meerkat who dreams of flying. |
|
| Scientists from the University of Cambridge in England recently discovered that meerkat pups attend classes too. |
|
| The saga began two years ago, after a meerkat population boom hit the zoo. |
|
| Installing a boardwalk made of durable, low maintenance TimberTech decking was a key component in bringing zoo guests closer to the spunky meerkat action. |
|
| Following an extensive engineering design process, the baseline design concept for the South African MeerKAT precursor telescope has been decided. |
|
|
|
| Animal crackers at zoo A MEERKAT expert has been ordered to pay PS800 compensation after glassing a love rival monkey handler in row over a llama keeper at a Christmas party. |
|
