Meerkats

There are three different ways to spell meerkat and they go by other names, too. I will look for a link with all that information on it and post it in the side bar. For now, I will tell you what little I remember from watching them.

The first thing I noticed was that they sand straight up on their mounds to watch for predators. There always seemed to be at least two on guard. Sometimes, I saw three. The mounds come from their digging a maze of tunnels. They live underground most of the time.

They can be busy little critters, though. I have seen them scampering about in and out of the tunnels doing their daily chores.