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Chapters:
00:00 Enrichment MEERKATS
01:05 Pablo The Meerkat Hunts Scorpion!
03:17 Meerkats As Pets?
04:10 Meerkat Play - Need Family (MOB)
04:21 Conclusion - Observe In Nature Or Sanctuary/Zoo

We take a couple of rescue meerkats on an enrichment walk into a game reserve next door from where the cheetah project is located and let them experience the wilderness. I looked under a bunch of rocks until I found one that had a burrowing scorpion under it. Pablo, one of the meerkats, waltz over and smelled it! Hiding inside its burrow. He worked his legs and claws and extracted it with precision! Nicely, I was there recording it to watch this natural event take place.

Meerkats are omnivorous, meaning they eat both plant and animal. Grubs, insects, fruits, scorpions and even snakes are on the menu of meerkats. Amazingly, meerkats have some immunity to regional snakes and scorpions. It's an adaptation like their cousins, the mongoose which also have immunity to certain snakes and scorpions.

Meerkats are quite cute and smart but I emphasize how they are NOT pets and don't make good pets. Wild animals should be personal pets for folks. Rescues, rehabilitating ones for release, in a sanctuary because they can't be released (like found on a farm alone or parents killed) and certain quality zoos are the places where I agree a meerkat or wild animal could be housed and cared for. Pablo and Zulu are rescue meerkats that someone found alone and needed a home or would die. Running Wild Conservation brought them in and care for them.

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"Watching meerkats kill and eat a scorpion 'live', one animal at a time," Dolph C. Volker

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