This article was originally published on Critter Science.

The meerkat belongs to the mongoose family. Nope, they aren’t cats at all. They live in semi-arid and arid deserts in western and southern Namibia, southwestern Botswana, and north and west South Africa. While they don’t sing songs about life or make friends with warthogs or especially lions, they are […]

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