ANIMAL BEHAVIOR
INTRODUCTION
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finding food, digging homes, taking care of young, protecting each other
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finding food, digging homes, protecting each other, and making colonies
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finding food, taking care of the young, digging homes, and yelling
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finding food, digging homes, protecting each other, watching movies
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Detailed explanation-1: -A meerkat (Suricata suricatta) survives by staying with its family and fulfilling its role as a group member. Each day one meerkat acts as a babysitter while another acts as sentry. Groups members also fulfill roles as teachers, showing the pups how to hunt and capture prey.
Detailed explanation-2: -Communal living helps meerkats to better survive. During the day, adults take turns as the lookout or sentry, so others can forage without worry. The sentry climbs atop a high rock, termite mound, or bush and stands upright on two legs.
Detailed explanation-3: -Although they are excellent diggers, meerkats usually live in burrows dug by other wildlife, such as ground squirrels. These burrows have an average of 15 entrance and exit holes, with tunnels and chambers at several levels, some as deep as 6.5 feet (2 meters).
Detailed explanation-4: -They dig in the ground to find their prey of insects, as well as siders, snails, rodents, eggs, lizards and scorpions. They use their keen sense of smell and quick digging skills to capture their prey.