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	Meerkat - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The meerkat is a small diurnal herpestid whose weight averages approximately 731 grams for males and 720 grams for females.
		Meerkats demonstrate altruistic behaviour within their colonies; one or more meerkats will stand sentry (lookout) while other members are foraging or playing in order to warn them of approaching dangers.
		Meerkats will also babysit any young that may be in the group, females that have never produced offspring of their own will often lactate to feed the alpha pairs young while the dominant female is away with the rest of the group.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Meerkat (1172 words)

	Meerkat
		Meerkats feed mainly on insects, spiders, and snails, but their prey also includes rodents, ground-nesting birds and their eggs, lizards, and bulbs and roots of select plants.
		When meerkats face the threats of a rival group of meerkats or a predator, they begin digging up the ground frantically in order to create clouds of dust to distract their aggressor.
		The gray meerkat, or Selous's mongoose, is slightly larger with a white-tipped tail.
	wonderclub.com /Wildlife/mammals/meerkat.htm (601 words)

	Meerkat (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Although a meerkat is capable of digging its own burrows, it often leaves most of the excavation work to African ground squirrels, and often shares their burrows with them.
		The gestation period of meerkats is eleven weeks, and the young are born at all times of the year.
		Therefore all meerkats in the Honolulu Zoo are males.
	www.honoluluzoo.org /meerkat.htm (421 words)

	meerkat info
		Meerkats also have the unique ability to close their ears, this is to keep dirt out while they burrow, which they do quite often.
		Meerkats that embark on this journey alone or in groups of two or three face great danger, as Meerkats are most vulnerable when they few in number.
		Meerkats do fine in captivity, in fact for the Meerkat which spends most of its time looking for food in the wild, this is probably a vacation.
	www.meerkats.net /info.htm (6805 words)

	Meerkats @ National Geographic Magazine (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Meerkats' unusual system of rearing their young poses questions that go to the roots of our understanding of cooperative societies, including our own.
		At first the meerkats hung on, digging for beetles and scorpions in the loose sand, but gradually their condition deteriorated and they were forced to forage farther and farther from bolt-holes—quick-escape burrows scattered throughout their range—and spend more and more of their time without the protection of sentinels.
		Meerkats often group together, alert eyes scanning the horizon—like people at a bus stop waiting for the next arrival.
	magma.nationalgeographic.com /ngm/0209/feature3 (916 words)

	NATURE. Critter Guide. Meerkat. \| PBS
		Meerkats are very playful with members of their own group, but are not very social with outsiders.
		The meerkat is a suricate (burrowing mammal) and is a member of the mongoose family.
		Meerkats' stomachs act like a solar panel during the winter months, collecting heat from the sun in order to provide warmth on cool days.
	www.pbs.org /wnet/nature/critters/meerkat.html (191 words)

	San Francisco Zoo \| Animals \| Slender-tailed meerkat (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Meerkats are omnivores, feeding mainly on insects, spiders and snails, but their diet also includes rodents, ground-nesting birds and their eggs, lizards, bulbs, and roots of selected plants.
		Meerkats are a dynamic and highly social species that live in close-knit colonies whose individuals can number as many as 30.
		Meerkat burrows are usually grass-lined and are sometimes shared with ground squirrels and yellow mongoose.
	www.sfzoo.org /cgi-bin/animals.py?ID=70 (633 words)

	Slender Tailed Meerkat
		Meerkats usually live in a group of 10 to 30 animals from several families, with a female in charge of each smaller family unit.
		Meerkats are a member of the viverrid family which also includes the otter and the mongooses.
		Meerkats apparently have a resistance to scorpion and snake venom.
	www.wellingtonzoo.com /animals/animals/mammals/meerkat.html (441 words)

	Meerkat (Suricata suricatta) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		The Meerkat is a relative of the mongoose.
		Meerkats can also close off their ears to keep out sand.
		Slender-Tailed Meerkats are found in Southern Africa in habitats ranging from forests to desert.
	www.thebigzoo.com /Animals/Meerkat.asp (355 words)

	Meerkat (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		The Meerkat is a mongoose of the African grasslands.
		Meerkats differ from most mongooses because they live in large social communities of more than one family.
		Meerkats are one of the few predators in the world to attack with absolutely no warning signs.
	www.pbs.org /kratts/world/africa/meerkat (165 words)

	Meerkat Printout- EnchantedLearning.com
		Meerkats (also called suricates) are small, burrowing mammals that live on the plains of southern Africa.
		Meerkats frequently sit or stand on their hind legs in an upright position, using their tail as a third leg.
		Anatomy: The meerkat is a sleek, furry animal the size of a squirrel.
	www.enchantedlearning.com /subjects/mammals/mongoose/Meerkatcoloring.shtml (233 words)

	Meerkat (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Meerkats tails can grow to be about 8 inches long and is usually the color of the stripes running down the meerkats' backs with a fl tip.
		Once one meerkat colony is the victor, they, as he puts it, "trash the losing colony's burrow by defecating all over their home and territory.
		Meerkat colonies are really a great thing, mostly because of their size this helps them from getting eaten.
	www.meerkat.org /mammals/meerkat.html (1699 words)

	meerkat photographs home page
		Meerkats are close relatives of mongooses and are found in dry regions of South Africa.
		Easily tamed, meerkats in South Africa are sometimes kept as household pets and used for killling rodents.
		Importation of meerkats to many countries, including the United States, is closely regulated because of their potential destructiveness to native wildlife.
	homepage.mac.com /rstacy/firstsite/meerkatphotos.html (305 words)

	Meerkat Home
		The Meerkat is a two-seater mid-engined sports car, partly inspired by the Lotus 7 and its spin-offs.
		The concept of a very basic "drivers" car with a high power to weight ratio and track derived handling is one that appealed to Colin Chapman, and many others that followed.
		Meerkats are cute and can be tamed, but they are predators and can attack without warning.
	www.desicodesign.com /meerkat (605 words)

	RSA-Overseas - The Expat Portal: Fauna: the Meerkat
		The Meerkat; although one of the smaller and least spectacular in the African Animal Kingdom, remains an interesting and endearing character.
		Guardianship: Meerkats are "snack size" for a number of animals so one always stands guard while the others forage or nap.
		Meerkat Diet Scorpions (meerkats are immune to their venom) beetles, spiders, centipedes, millipedes, worms, crickets (FAST food), small mammals, small reptiles, birds, eggs, tubers and roots.
	www.rsa-overseas.com /explore/fauna_meerk.htm (217 words)

	Meerkat Information
		Meerkat is a member of the mongoose family and it inhabits all part of the kalahari Desert in southern Africa.
		The meerkat is carnivorious mostly eating spiders and insects and other small mammals.
		Meerkat calls have been noted to cary speciic meaning, alerting other members to the approach of snakes, birds, or other predators.
	www.junglewalk.com /info/meerkat-information.htm (178 words)

	O'Reilly Press Room -- Meerkat, an Open Wire Service
		Meerkats, being low on the food chain, have to be careful when going about their daily business -- someone always stands guard, scanning the horizon for anything that moves.
		"Meerkat is an editorial tool that we use at the O'Reilly Network to monitor the flow of information in technical communities," said Dougherty.
		Meerkat is an aggregator of information from sites that support RSS (Rich Site Summary), an XML format that supplies the title, description and URL for stories created on the site.
	www.oreilly.com /www/oreilly/press/meerkat.html (446 words)

	AA Meerkat (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Meerkats are highly gregarious mammals, living in family units (called "bands") averaging 10-30 adults, but ranging from 5 to 40.
		As the Meerkats are most vulnerable to predators when they are outside the den foraging for food, sentinels are appointed to perch at high vantage points around the area to keep close watch over the band.
		Meerkats reach adult size in 6 months and are mature at 12 months, whereupon a struggle for dominance begins leading to fights and scuffles.
	www.szgdocent.org /resource/aa/meerkat/meerkat.htm (1133 words)

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	What Is A Timon? A Meerkat!
		Meerkats are a member of the mongoose family, which means they are immune to venom.
		Meerkat at www.meerkat.org is reported to have this watch.
		Her love for meerkats is well noted because she provided Disney with the actual model for Timon and is the global authority on meerkats.
	www.lionking.org /~timon/meerkat.htm (1112 words)

	Meerkat Interim Vehicle Mounted Mine Detector [IVMMD]
		The lead vehicle (Meerkat) is a single-occupant two-wheel drive vehicle, and serves as the primary mine detection vehicle.
		Teleoperation capability is being developed to remotely control the Meerkat to provide a stand-off distance to soldiers using the system to detect larger mines or during operations in an unknown mine threat environment.
		Tele-operation capability is being developed to remotely control the Meerkat to provide a standoff distance to soldiers using the system to detect larger mines or during operations when the mine threat is unknown.
	www.globalsecurity.org /military/systems/ground/ivmmd.htm (1532 words)

	Oakland Zoo: Meerkat (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		While foraging, at least one member is standing on hind legs or perched in a bush or tree and scanning the skies and land for predators (Turns at sentry duty can last over an hour without relief).
		Members band together in a large hissing, stiff-jumping mass to intimidate larger predators such as jackals or rival clans of meerkats.
		A meerkat is not a cat, but is a suricate, a member of the mongoose family.
	www.oaklandzoo.org /atoz/azmeerkat.html (586 words)

	Animal Planet - Animal Tales - Meerkat Manor (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Meerkat Manor is a soap opera with a difference – the main protagonists are 12 inches high, live underground in burrows and survive on a diet of worms, insects and lizards.
		In cooperation with Cambridge University, the story of the Whiskers mob is told from the perspective of the meerkats themselves.
		With no humans featured, film crews were housed in specially built sheds and, for the first time, successfully filmed inside a meerkat burrow using fibre-optic cameras.
	www.animalplanetasia.com /meerkatmanor/feature1.shtml (161 words)

	Omnitech Robotics - SRS Robotic Meerkat Mine Detector Application
		Meerkat IVMMD is a vehicle-mounted mine detector Non-Developmental Item produced by the Rolling Stock Division in South Africa. It is capable of providing forward and rear area security by detecting high-metallic antitank mines on roads.
		When installed on a Meerkat, the Standardized Robotic System enables the Meerkat to be teleoperated or remotely-controlled while performing mine detection and marking operations.
		As the Meerkat drives on roads or cross-country, data is accumulated, processed, and displayed to the crew in the Command Vehicle (CV).
	www.omnitech.com /srs_meerkat.htm (167 words)

	meerkat on Encyclopedia.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Meerkat pups venture out to be seen at the zoo.
		Meerkat pups grow fatter with extra adults.(cooperative breeding and raising of the young discovered in the meerkats of Africa)(Brief Article)
		LONDON - APRIL 13: A meerkat eats an easter egg treat filled with worms, given to him by a zookeeper, during a photocall at London Zoo on April 13, 2006 in London, England.
	www.encyclopedia.com /html/X/X-meerkat.asp (411 words)

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		Meerkat groups have a dominant breeding pair and up to 23 helpers to assist in the rearing of the babies.
		The Madagascar cat and Cynictis penicillata are also termed meerkats.
		Meerkats Suricata suricatta are in family Viverridae, order Carnivora.
	www.tiscali.co.uk /reference/encyclopaedia/hutchinson/m0059421.html (280 words)

	All About Meerkats -- Meerkat vital statistics, "adoption" info, books, T-shirts and much more meerkat information from ...
		Surprisingly, meerkats are one of the most strictly regulated animals in the world.
		The animals come to us from accredited zoos and are placed here for a variety of reasons: The meerkats may be orphaned, injured, old, sick, or the previous facility is simply out of room to care for them.
		Pam Bennett-Wallberg is married to the mob -- a mob of meerkats, that is....
	www.meerkats.com (381 words)

	BBC NEWS \| UK \| England \| Houseproud Merlin the meerkat
		Merlin the meerkat would normally be found standing sentry on the dry plains of southern Africa.
		Meerkats usually live in gangs of 25, but this meerkat's family are his owners Matt Rowthorn and Sue Lambell.
		He said many meerkats can be a bit of a handful to keep.
	news.bbc.co.uk /2/hi/uk_news/england/2541795.stm (200 words)

	Q & A: Cat or Meerkat? (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Although the sprightly, furry meerkat has some catlike characteristics and is sometimes kept as a vermin-eating pet in South Africa, the naming is not closely related to the domestic cat and apparently reflects a history of near misses in natural history observation as new species became known to Europeans.
		Meerkat is an Afrikaans word used for any mongoose, and the meerkat is in fact a member of the mongoose family.
		Meerkats, also called suricates, are clever, gregarious, omnivorous mammals from the plains of southern Africa.
	www.nytimes.com /2003/12/09/science/09QNA.html?ex=1386306000&en=0df56998006b15f7&ei=5007&partner=USERLAND (321 words)

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