Meerkat

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The Meerkat (Suricata suricatta) is a mongoose who lives in portions of South Africa, Botswana, Zimbabwe and Mozambique. Meerkats exhibit a sentinel behavior, where one member of the group poses as a look out, watching for predators and other danger. Scientific classification:

• Kingdom: Animalia
• Phylum: Chordata
• Subphylum: Vertebrata
• Class: Mammalia
• Order: Carnivora
• Family: Herpestidae
• Subfamily: Herpestinae
• Genus: Suricata
• Species: Suricata suricatta

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