Slender-Tail Meerkat

By:Esha Shrivastiva Garrioch

Intro

Meerkats are native to south Africa. They are a type of mongoose and have thin bodies and long slim tails. Their habitat is in the savanna and bush. In captivity meerkats only live 12-14 years but in the wild they live 6 or 7 years. Now I will take you into the world of…

!!!!!Meerkats!!!!!!

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Habitat and Threats

The slender-tailed meerkat lives in Africa and bush and grass lands. These meerkats live in large groups to protect each other and make a warning if the see danger. Some animal predator for this animal are hawks, eagles, and many wild cats.

Hawk

Jackal

Eagle

Communication between meerkats

Slender-tailed meerkats have many ways of communication including squeaks. More than 20 of which have been recorded. These squeaks have placed in 6 different calls including. lost calls alarm calls leading the group calls pup feeding calls and foraging calls.

A Meerkat’s Diet

Slender-tail meerkats are omnivores, meaning that they eat both meat and greens. A slender-tailed meerkats diet consists of worms, lizards, small rodents, many types of beetles, and small snakes.

Earth Worm

Lizard

Chinchilla

Snake

Where is the slender-tailed meerkat in the toronto zoo?

In the Toronto zoo the slender-tailed meerkat is in the African pavilion but you should be careful because it’s easy to miss the meerkats. You will also see a bunch of other animals from Africa and there are more animals from other places around the world that you will see if you go to the Toronto zoo.

Is the slender-tailed meerkat endangered?

The slender-tailed meerkat is critically endangered because of all of the predators, their lifespan and because a lot of these animals live together they can warn each other of predators but if no one sees the predator it is bad for the meerkats population.

Meerkat Adaptations

A few adaptations that the slender-tailed meerkats have are that they are very good diggers and for one group of meerkats they can have tunnels with usually 70 entrances/exits this is good for hiding from predators and for stalking prey. Meerkats also have a white film on their eyelids that helps them when they get sand in their eyes.

Conclusion

To conclude slender-tailed meerkats are wonderful creatures and are very interesting, sadly slender-tailed meerkats are critically endangered and need help. You can’t adopt a meerkat and take it home but you can adopt one online. So go do it you may be saving a life.

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