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Browse Presentation Creator Pro Upload Sep 02, 2014 140 likes | 337 Views Meerkats. Meerkats are part of the mongoose family. Meerkats are found in South Africa. Size:. A meerkat can grow up to 30 centimetres and can weigh up to 1 kilogram. The tail can grow up to 20 centimetres long. The tail is used to help the meerkat balance. Life Span:. Download Presentation Meerkats An Image/Link below is provided (as is) to download presentation Download Policy: Content on the Website is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use and may not be sold / licensed / shared on other websites without getting consent from its author. Content is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use only. Download presentation by click this link. While downloading, if for some reason you are not able to download a presentation, the publisher may have deleted the file from their server. During download, if you can't get a presentation, the file might be deleted by the publisher. Presentation Transcript MeerkatsMeerkats are part of the mongoose family. • Meerkats are found in South Africa. Size: • A meerkat can grow up to 30 centimetres and can weigh up to 1 kilogram. • The tail can grow up to 20 centimetres long. • The tail is used to help the meerkat balance.Life Span: • The life span of the meerkat is 12 to 14 years.Colour: • The colour of the meerkat ranges from brown to orange.Vision: • Meerkats have excellent eye sight. • They see in colour. • The dark markings around the meerkat’s eyes act like sunglasses.Food: • To find their food the meerkats dig as most of their food is found underground. • Meerkats like to eat lots of different types of food. • They love to eat scorpions that are venomous to humans but not to meerkats. • A meerkat will often drag any poisonous prey, such as a scorpion, across the sand before eating it. They do this to remove the poison from their meal. Meerkats also like to eat spiders, centipedes, beetles, worms, crickets, small mammals, small reptiles, birds, eggs, roots of plants, grasshoppers, small rodents, lizards, snakes and fruit. • Meerkats drink water but they have the ability to get water from their food.Habitat: • Meerkats live in underground burrows. • When the meerkats make their burrow they make sleeping parts,

The lookout is to ensure that they give warnings to the groups if there is any danger approaching. When the meerkats spot a predator, they tend to give out a warning bark. Hence, the other members of the gang will run away and seek shelter in the bolt holes or the burrows that they have created. The meerkat in the sentry will also be the first animal to appear directly from the burrow and then be on the lookout for predators. They are constantly barking in order to make sure that the other members stay under the ground and safe from danger. In case there is no impending threat, the meerkat in the sentry will then stop the barking, and then the other members will safely emerge from their safe shelter.Meerkats also have the tendency to babysit the offspring and the young meerkats that are a part of the entire group. A very strange example of this phenomenon is when the female meerkats that have not yet had any offspring of their own tend to start lactating in order to feed the babies of the alpha pairs. The responsibility of protecting the younger generation of meerkats also falls on the others. These meerkats often endanger their lives in order to protect the young.[Image will be Uploaded Soon]The babysitter meerkats are pretty much serious about the duties and hence tend to be the most responsible ones in the entire gang. Here is another important detail. Meerkats tend to engage in different social activities as well. There are often foot races and wrestling matches that happen in the groups of the meerkats as well. Despite having an altruistic behavior that is pretty much normal to the meerkats, they often tend to contradict it as well. An example of it is when they kill the younger members of society. There are certain subordinates in the groups that also tend to kill the offspring of their alphas and the senior members.Reproduction in Meerkats: What Do You Need To Know?When we are talking about reproduction in meerkats, there are certain details that you need to know. Meerkats tend to become mature sexually at about one year of their life. On average, meerkats tend to produce three babies in one litter. The wild meerkats that have groups also have 3 different litters in the year. One interesting detail here is that meerkats are iteroparous in nature and they are able to properly reproduce any particular time of the year. However, most of the births of the meerkats tend to happen in the summer seasons when the climate is a bit warmer. Various reports tend to shed some light on the pre-copulatory display of meerkats. In this system, the male meerkats would have fights with the females and that lasts till the female submits. Then the process of copulation will start. The period of gestation is about eleven weeks; the birth of the offspring happens in the burrows.The ears of young meerkats take about 10 days to

The meerkats are also known as suricates and they are small mammals that are an integral part of the family of mongooses. There are several different types and species of the animal Meerkat that tend to inhabit certain locations. One of the most common locations of the Meerkats is in the Kalahari Desert that is situated in Southern Africa. Here we are going to have a discussion about the animal in proper detail so that you can have an idea about the different details. Here is an important fact about the meerkat animal: a group of meerkats is known as a ‘gang’ or a ‘mob’.Description of a Meerkat AnimalIn the details about the description of meerkats, there are several pieces of information that can be shared with the people. The total length of the meerkats tends to go up to about 25-35 centimeters in total. This also includes the tail. A very interesting fact about the meerkat is that the measurement of the tail alone is about 17-25 centimeters. Also, the meerkats don’t have bushy fur like the mongoose species as well. The tail of meerkats is very slender and long. Apart from that it also tapers to a reddish or black-colored tip that is often pointed in nature.The weight of the male meerkats is around 731 grams which are about 1.61 pounds in total. The female meerkats have a weight of about 720 grams and that is about 1.58 pounds in total. When they stand on their legs, the height of the meerkats gets up to about 30 centimeters and that is about 12 inches in total. A very common difference between the appearance of meerkats and mongooses is that meerkats tend to have a more slender build and also they have snouts that are pointed. Most meerkats also have silvery brown skin along with certain dark stripes that are irregular in their body. Also, certain species of meerkats tend to have rumps that run uniquely on each type.[Image will be Uploaded Soon]One interesting thing about the meerkat’s underside is that there are literally no marks there. However, the belly of the meerkat is covered with a patch and that has a growth of hair in it as well. The hair growth is preceded by black skin. This is the area that the meerkats use in order to make sure that the heat is properly absorbed when they are standing on their rear legs. This happens mostly during the early mornings that follow colder nights.The face color of meerkats is white and there are certain marks around the eyes that are dark in color. These dark markings help in warding off the glare of the sun. The ears of meerkats have a crescent shape and will be able to close properly when they are digging in the earth. This way the sand stays out of the ears.There are 5 toes on the paws of meerkats which is pretty different from the 4-toed mongooses. The eyes are located right on

Meerkats are one of the small animals that are found throughout southern Africa. These animals can survive in harsh and dry habitats.Have you ever wondered what a meerkat sounds like? In this article, we will take a look at some meerkat sounds. You will also listen to different meerkat sounds in this article.Meerkat Sounds1. Morning Chatter2. The Alarm Call3. The Purr SoundHow Meerkats CommunicateListen to Meerkat SoundsFor Movie FansFinal WordsFAQsWhy do meerkats make noise?Why do Meerkats chatter?What are meerkats afraid of?Read another similar post:Meerkat SoundsJust like many other animals, meerkats use sounds to communicate with each other. They make different sounds depending on the situation.Here are some sounds meerkats make in the wild.1. Morning ChatterThe name gives you an idea of how this sounds. The morning chatter is one of the first sounds you will hear as the sun rises over the Kalahari Desert.You will hear this sound if you visit some southern African countries like Botswana, South Africa, and Namibia.Meerkats make these continuous, high-pitched chirps that are meant to greet each other. You can say it is their version of saying, “Good morning, everyone!”2. The Alarm CallMany animals that live in the wild have a way to communicate when there is danger. For meerkats, the alarm call is how they alert others of predators like eagles, snakes, and jackals.This is a sharp, high-pitched bark that sends the entire mob looking for cover.3. The Purr SoundMeerkats make a soft purring sound when they are excited. This sound can be heard from their burrows when they are grooming each other.How Meerkats CommunicateAlthough meerkats are little animals, they have an effective communication system.Meerkats live in groups known as “Mobs.” This group consists of 20 meerkats, and in some cases they might reach 50 in number.There is always one member in every meerkat

Danger is spotted, the sentinel lets everyone know through a specific bark, similar to sounding a siren or alarm. The meerkats have their own language, with specific calls used as alarms. It's quite an efficient system of predator detection: In one study, sentinels were able to detect predators more than 150 meters away 77 percent of the time, compared to only 44 percent detected by foraging meerkats [source: University of Cambridge]. Who are the predators? Meerkats are on the lookout for martial eagles, jackals, hawks, snakes and other competitive meerkat gangs. If trouble arises and the sentinel sounds the alarm, there are a few different techniques to dodge the danger, including running for the bolt-holes, fending off the attacker and covering babies, standing tall in alert stance, and mobbing the enemy. In ground conflict, defensive threats and mobbing make the meerkats seem large and intimidating. Mobbing meerkats rock back and forth while hissing and growling. But when enemies approach from the sky, meerkats most often seek protection in their burrows. Meerkats live in cooperative social systems. Now let's learn more about their social structure and the different roles meerkats play in their community.