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Meerkat
By: Casey H.
Physical Characteristics
• They are 20 inches or 51 centimeter
• The meerkats weighs at least 2 pounds
• The meerkat has a long brown tail with white spots
Habitat
• It lives in southwestern Angola to south Africa
• They live in savannah
Food
• The meerkats are carnivore • They eat beetles and mostly
grasshoppers
Protection/Predators
• The predators are large animals • They have few enemies• There enemies are hawks, eagles
and jackals
Life Span
• They live up to 5 to 15 years
Babies
• They are born blind and hairless
• They are in their moms stomach for 11 weeks
• They give birth to 2 to 4 cubs
Cool Facts
• They have a name group called colony
• They stay in a group the whole time