description

Vision is their most developed sense, they have dark patches around their eyes to cut down glare from the sun and help them see far into the distance.

Meerkats can live up to eighty years in the wild but life can be harsh and they have many predators.

diet

You may be surprised to learn meerkats are omnivores – they eat fruit and vegetables as well as animals.

habitat

Meerkats live in all parts of the Kalahari Desert in Botswana, in much of the Namib Desert in Namibia and south- western Angola and in South Africa.

fun fact

Meerkats may be able to handle a bite from some types of venomous snakes.