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Meerkats

Meerkats. Meerkats are part of the mongoose family. Meerkats are found in South Africa. Size:. A meerkat can grow up to 30 centimetres and can weigh up to 1 kilogram. The tail can grow up to 20 centimetres long. The tail is used to help the meerkat balance. Life Span:.

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Meerkats

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  1. Meerkats

  2. Meerkats are part of the mongoose family. • Meerkats are found in South Africa.

  3. Size: • A meerkat can grow up to 30 centimetres and can weigh up to 1 kilogram. • The tail can grow up to 20 centimetres long. • The tail is used to help the meerkat balance.

  4. Life Span: • The life span of the meerkat is 12 to 14 years.

  5. Colour: • The colour of the meerkat ranges from brown to orange.

  6. Vision: • Meerkats have excellent eye sight. • They see in colour. • The dark markings around the meerkat’s eyes act like sunglasses.

  7. Food: • To find their food the meerkats dig as most of their food is found underground. • Meerkats like to eat lots of different types of food. • They love to eat scorpions that are venomous to humans but not to meerkats. • A meerkat will often drag any poisonous prey, such as a scorpion, across the sand before eating it. They do this to remove the poison from their meal.

  8. Meerkats also like to eat spiders, centipedes, beetles, worms, crickets, small mammals, small reptiles, birds, eggs, roots of plants, grasshoppers, small rodents, lizards, snakes and fruit. • Meerkats drink water but they have the ability to get water from their food.

  9. Habitat: • Meerkats live in underground burrows. • When the meerkats make their burrow they make sleeping parts, tunnels to move around and holes so they can come in at the surface. • Some burrows can have up to 70 different entrances.

  10. Meerkats also have special exits so they can get away from predators. • Meerkats like to live in a family group which is called a gang. • Gangs like to live together and in a certain area. • Meerkats protect their area by fighting other gangs.

  11. The male meerkat marks the area with his cheek. They also have 6 to 15 dens in their territory.

  12. Mating and Reproduction: • The female and male meerkat try to mate for life but this doesn’t always happen. • This might be because the male might die or may be killed by another male from inside their gang or another gang. • When the female is ready to breed she scares and chases the other gangs and families away. • The baby meerkat is called a pup. That is called that until they are 10 months old.

  13. Predators: • A meerkat has lots of predators. • Eagles, snakes, foxes, wild cats and badgers like to eat the meerkat.

  14. Thank you for listening 3ST.

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