Meerkat
Suricata suricatta
At a glance
- Scientific name
- Suricata suricatta
- Class
- Mammal
- Order
- Carnivora
- Family
- Mongoose
- Diet
- Insectivore
- Size
- Small (under 1 m)
- Active
- By day
- Continent
- Africa
- Habitat
- Desert, Savanna
- Conservation status
- Least concern
- Difficulty in WildGuessr
- Medium
Did you know?
- One meerkat stands guard on its hind legs while the rest forage, with different alarm calls for air and ground threats.
- Adults teach pups to handle scorpions by first giving them disabled prey.
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Classification, names and conservation status come from Wikidata (CC0), the photo from Wikimedia Commons. Wikidata Q134015 · All animals · All entries