Humans liken them to meerkats or ferrets in appearance.
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When the pups are ready to emerge from the burrow, the whole clan of meerkats will stand around the burrow to watch.
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Meerkats make different alarm calls depending upon whether they see an aerial or a terrestrial predator.
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Breaking from the series' pure documentary format, the film does not include footage of the project meerkats depicted in the story.
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To provide bird and snake footage, professional handlers were employed, ensuring the meerkats were not deliberately put in danger.
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However, the altruism of thismeerkatputs it at risk of being discovered by the predator.
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One or more meerkats act as sentries while the others forage for food.
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During foraging times, the young cubs are left with a pair of babysitters, similar to meerkats.
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The meerkats' frequently short lives and brutal deaths become surprising and disturbing to some audiences.
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From the savanna visitors would enter the rock kopje with a gang of meerkats.
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They had created a loyal and ferocious gang of meerkats.
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They tend to inhabit burrows of meerkats and cracks in the soil during the day and venture out at night.
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Newmeerkatgroups are often formed by evicted females pairing with roving males.
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Wild meerkats may have up to four litters per year.
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When the meerkats and babblers flee from the non-existent predator, drongo steals their food.
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