Meerkats within the Kalahari Leave, Botswana

While it certainly bears a passing likeness to a squirrel or weasel, the meerkat may be a sort of mongoose local to the southern African fields. You'll find meerkats in parts of South Africa, Angola, Namibia and within the Kalahari Forsake of Botswana, where our picture was taken. In spite of the fact that they fundamentally live on creepy crawlies, their slim down too incorporates seeds, natural product, snakes, reptiles, eggs and indeed scorpions. Meerkats live in bunches of up to 50 creatures called 'mobs' and burrow broad burrows underground. Amid the day, they rise from the burrows to scrounge as a bunch. As the horde scavenges, one meerkat, in some cases more, will stand protect. In case it spots a predator, the sentry gives a caution cry that either tells the bunch to rapidly take cover in a burrow or calls them together to swarm and drive off the risk.