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MEERKATS
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Meerkats
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Meerkats live in
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Africa in the Kalahari
. They are very cute
.They are brown with grey�
and black ears. They are
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small - about the same
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as a rabbit.
�they are�adults at about one year of age they weigh around 2 pounds (750 - 820 grams). They've got a long body and a long
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short legs. They can stand�
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two legs.
They live in
. There are�
five and thirty meerkats in�
group. They
�very social animals and they
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to play with�one another.�
Meerkats constantly communicate with one another in three different
: scent, sound, and body language.
They sleep in holes in the
. These holes are called burrows which consist of entrance holes, tunnels,�and sleeping chambers. There may be up to 70 different entrances to the burrow system.
Meerkats �
�early in the morning as the first rays of the sun stretch across�
Kalahari. They�
their holes and look
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food. They eat insects, plants,
, eggs and mice. They
�even eat�
animals�
scorpions and spiders.��When meerkats eat, some
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them stand on two legs and�guard the others. That's�
some other animals like�
eat meerkats. When
the�
�see
an eagle, a snake
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a fox they bark and��
the meerkats run
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to their holes.
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