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1. hrs Meerkats

2. Were meerkats are located • Meerkats inhabit the Kalahari desert and South Africa

3. Meerkat Habitat • Meerkats are not related to cats, but are part of the mongoose family • Meerkats live in underground • Meerkats are very territorial • If an enemy try to evade they burrow they will start an tertiary war • Meerkats live in southern Africa, in savannah grassland areas where there is not much rain. They dig burrows in the ground, so they choose places where the ground is hard so their tunnels don't collapse. They shelter in their dens at night. A colony of about 10-20 meerkats will have several burrows, each with a number of tunnels over a metre long with a grass-lined chamber at the end

4. Meerkats height, weight, and colour • The meerkat is a small diurnal herpestid weighing on average about 731 grams 1.61 pounds for males and 720 grams 1.58 pounds for females. Its long slender body and limbs give it a body length of 25 to 35 cm (10 to 14 inches) and an added tail length of 17 to 25 cm (7 to 10 inches). • Its tail is not bushy like all other mongoose species, but is rather long and thin and tapers to a black or reddish coloured pointed tip. The meerkat uses its tail to balance when standing upright. Its face tapers, coming to a point at the nose, which is brown. • The eyes always have black patches around them, which help deflect the sun's glare. The meerkat has small black crescent-shaped ears that can close when digging to keep sand out. Like cats, meerkats have binocular vision, a large peripheral range, depth perception, and eyes on the front of their faces.

5. Meerkats diet • Meerkats eat lizards, snakes, scorpions, spiders, plants , eggs, small mammals, millipedes, centipedes and, more rarely, small birds. They are partially immune to certain venoms; they are immune to the very strong venom of the scorpions of the Kalahari desert , unlike humans. They have no excess body fat stores, so foraging for food is a daily need.