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44 images Created 4 Jun 2014

Library of Meerkat photos (suricata surcatta) taken whilst working at the Kalahari Meerkat Project near Van Zyl's Rus South Africa in 2013/14.

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  • A Meerkat keeping vigilant in early morning light.
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  • Meerkat Sunning itself in the morning.
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  • Meerkat looking out for predators on raised guard in a bush.
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  • Kalahari Meerkat
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  • Meerkat looking out for predators
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  • A Meerkat digging in the evening light, throwing plumes of red kalahari sand into the air. A meerkat can shift its bodyweight in sand in only a few seconds.
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  • Meerkats process millipedes by rubbing them in the sand to remove toxins before eating them.
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  • Meerkats emerging from a burrow.
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  • A Meerkat with an unusual prey item, a clutch of Leopard Tortoise eggs.
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  • Meerkat sunning in the morning light casting a long shadow
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  • A young Meerkat Eating a Scorpion having previously bitten off the stinger on the tail.
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  • Searching the sky for predators.
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  • A group of Meerkats engaged in cooperative "allogrooming".
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  • A Meerkat portrait.
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  • Meerkat group sunning in the warm morning sunshine
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  • A wide angle shot of Meerkats sunning at the burrow after a cold night.
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  • A Meerkat group stands together to catch the last of the suns energy before returning to thier burrow.
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  • A Meerkat group stands together to catch the last of the suns energy before returning to the burrow.
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  • A group of Meerkats mobbing a scent marking left by a rival group.
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  • A sentinel Meerkat standing guard on the lookout for predators or rival groups.
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  • A Meerkat group wardances at another rival group to scare them off.
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  • A Meerkat on sentinel duty keeps watch for aerial predators.
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  • Young pups with babysitter adult on a dead tree. Meerkat babysitting pups
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  • Young pups with babysitter adult on a dead tree. Meerkat babysitting pups
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  • A Meerkat at the burrow at sunset.
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  • Meerkat group drinking from a cattle trough. Meerkats can survive without ever drinking as they get all the moisture they need form their food however they will certainly drink if they can.
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  • Meerkat pups with a babysitter.
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  • Meerkat Pups
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  • Meerkat pups with a babysitter.
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  • Three tired Meerkat pups on one of their first days after emerging from the burrow, watched over by the babysitter.
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  • Three adult Meerkats babysitting four pups on their first day out of the burrow.
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  • An adult Meerkat with a very young pup on it's first day out of the burrow.
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  • A back-lit juvenile Meerkat at sunset.
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  • Wide angle shot of a Meerkat pup with the babysitter in the background.
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  • An adult Meerkat babysitting pups.
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  • An adult meerkat feeding a dead scorpion to a young meerkat pup.
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  • The slender shape of a Meerkat profile at sunset.
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  • This was the first Meerkat out of the burrow in the morning. It sat for a while in perfect light before the others got up.
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  • The setting sun makes the dust kicked up by a digging Meerkat glow gold.
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  • A Meerkat babysitter "allolactates" for the dominant females litter of pups.
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  • Four young Meerkat pups at the burrow entrance.
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  • A Meerkat Sentinel getting distracted by flies.
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  • Three Meerkats involved in a game of rough and tumble.
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  • A babysitter hugging a young pup
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