Here are 20 amazing facts about meerkat.
1-5 Meerkat Facts
1. Meerkats are misunderstood as a type of monkey, but they are technically a type of Mongoose. – Source
2. Dominating female meerkats will enslave subordinate females within their group as wet nurses. Those that resist are exiled from the group after murdering the subordinate’s pups. – Source
3. There is a permanent Meerkat enclosure in Melbourne Children’s hospital to help cheer up the patients. – Source
4. In 2007 edition of Rolling stone magazine a meerkat made “saddest death of the year” – Source
5. The word ‘Meerkatze’ in German is used for guenon monkeys and meerkats are called ‘Erdmännchen’ which means earth manikins. – Source
6-10 Meerkat Facts
6. Meerkat mothers can nurse their children while standing on their back legs. – Source
7. A Meerkat mother will bring its pups live bugs and teach them how to kill the prey. – Source
8. Young meerkats are so suspicious of birds that even airplanes will scare them into their burrows. – Source
9. Just like human warriors fought before modern technology, when two groups of meerkats go to war over territory, they will line up and charge each other. – Source
10. Meerkats have the ability to recognize each other’s voice. – Source
11-15 Meerkat Facts
11. Meerkats are diurnal in nature; they go outside only during the daytime. – Source
12. Meerkats dig safe places called bolt holes where they can hide in an emergency. – Source
13. Meerkats have perfume pouches below their tails and they rub these pouches on rocks to mark their territory. – Source
14. If a meerkat spots a predator, it alerts the others with a bark or whistle. – Source
15. Meerkats are known to kill poisonous snakes, but they don’t accomplish this task alone – they work as a mob. – Source
16-20 Meerkat Facts
16. A study reveals Meerkat as the most “murderous” mammal known to science. – Source
17. A female Meerkat can produce twice as much Testosterone as Males. – Source
18. A theory says that a potential Indian sailor named the meerkat after the Sanskrit word for monkey, ‘markata’. – Source
19. A meerkat is believed to be a ’sun angel’ in the Zimbabwe and Zambian regions of Africa. It is said that the ‘sun angels’ are sent by the gods to protect villages. – Source
20. Meerkats live in groups of 20-50 extended family members in large underground tunnels. – Source
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