You’re quite right: meerkats are not cats, despite the name that local people have given them.
But we’ve got a non-canid caniform coming in tomorrow as part of the “fire fox” thing, so why not a non-felid feliform on this October Freaky Friday the Thirteenth?
After all, they use us —
— and we prank them:
As if they didn’t have enough trouble from drongos!
The challenge is in finding a video of these popular little toughies that you might not have seen yet.
I decided to take a different route. We can read up on meerkats and learn that they are akin to mongooses, but most of us are somewhat vague on what mongooses are.
Which is where the Bandits of Selous come in (note– this is about real-life struggles to survive in the wild and can be tough to watch in places):
More information:
- Kalahari Meerkat Project
- Animalia.bio page on Selous’s mongoose
- Do captive meerkats sense our feelings?
Some lagniappe:
When it comes to mind games, cats rule!
Featured image: Image by Peter Mill from Pixabay
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