Meerkats

Meerkats live in Southwestern Africa and the Kalahari Desert. The meerkat can go a long time without water. They eat the roots and fruit of some kinds of plants. Mostly they eat animals such as centipedes, scorpions, lizards and also birds. The Meerkats energy role is an omnivore. The water the meerkat needs to survive they get from eating roots and tasima melons. The animal behavior of the meerkat is when the meerkat is digging and it gets sand in its eye and when it blinks it acts as a window wiper for its eye!

In the wild, meerkats can live up to be 8-10 years old. Also when meerkats are up high they can see far away. The meerkat that is on guard is alerting all the other meerkats when a predator is nearby. When the meerkat alerts the others it howls and screeches and all the meerkats know to run and hide in their dens. What enables the meerkat to avoid being eaten is its speed and agility. A few of the meerkats predators are...Foxes, Jackals, Hyenas, Hawks and Eagles. Thanks for looking at are blog post! By Haleigh and Greta