Meerkats Gallery

Close Up of a Meerkat in South Africa

The meerkat is a small carnivoran belonging to the mongoose family. It is the only member of the genus Suricata. Meerkats live in all parts of the Kalahari Desert in Botswana, in much of the Namib Desert in Namibia and southwestern Angola, and in South Africa

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White tailed mongoose, Ichneumia albicauda

White tailed mongoose, Ichneumia albicauda, and meerkat or suricate, Suricata suricatta. . Handcolored copperplate stipple engraving from Frederic Cuvier's Dictionary of Natural Science: Mammals, Paris, France, 1816. Illustration by J. G. Pretre, engraved by David, directed by Pierre Jean-Francois Turpin, and published by F.G. Levrault. Jean Gabriel Pretre (1780-1845) was painter of natural history at Empress Josephine's zoo and later became artist to the Museum of Natural History

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Meerkat -Suricata suricatta- pups, Stuttgart, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany

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