So for my last post, I decided to share some of my favorite video clips! Here is one that shows a group of baby meerkat's first experience outside of the den... it is fascinating how easily they warm up to the human observers! The pups are so darn cute :) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cMIRwCNvI94
This video is made by Simon King and his crew, a wildlife film maker from the UK who has spent much time with meerkats in the Kalahari Desert.
This next video, also from the BBC channel, gives a great example of how meerkats hunt in groups, including a view of the meerkat on sentry duty and the calls they give to warn the group of an incoming threat. It is a good synopsis of the daily hunting routine of meerkats. http://www.bbc.co.uk/nature/life/Meerkat#p00f3h6l
The National Geographic channel has a great little montage that highlights some of the most interesting facts about meerkats. It is great because it shows how they dig burrows and most importantly--how they eat a living scorpion without getting stung! http://video.nationalgeographic.com/video/animals/bugs-animals/spiders-and-scorpions/meerkat/ Forgive the cheesy narrator, its hard to make wildlife videos interesting! ;)
These next two videos are behind-the-scenes clips from Animal Planet's Meerkat Manor. They are interviews with the field researchers who explain some of the behaviors they observe in meerkats on a daily basis. This first one is about how a dominant female is chosen in a meerkat group: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PZglquBWYgk&feature=related and this next one is about how the radio collars they put on the meerkats work and how they are able to get them on the meerkats without endangering themselves or the animals: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ydCMCAwd8Cg&feature=relmfu
So there you go, I hope you found some of these videos interesting! I think they help to provide visual examples to the many topics I have discussed over this blog. I hope you have learned about these cute, cuddly and fascinating creatures in great detail over the course of this blog. I have had a lot of fun researching and writing about them each week! :)
Resources:
http://animal.discovery.com/animals
http://www.bbc.co.uk/nature
http://animals.nationalgeographic.com/animals
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