The Secret Life of a Meerkat Family!

The Kalahari in Southern Africa is famously the home of Meerkats, also known as the suricate ( Suricata suricatta ) . In this video I spend a whole day following a family of meerkats uncovering their secret life in the Kalahari. We learn how these social meerkats communicate with each other; how they hunt prey including their favourite meal which is scorpions; how they lookout for potential predators; and how they rear their young and look after them cooperatively as a family unit. We also learn more about how they move along their territory, going from one burrow system to another. Each burrow system has a different purpose, one area is used for sleeping, the others are more used as pitstops on their way through their territory as they forage for food. It is a truly magical experience following these meerkats, being accepted into their family!
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Jack Randall has extensive experience handling and studying wild animals. Where filming with dangerous animals Made in the Wild works with scientists and wildlife institutions. Do not attempt to handle wild animals without appropriate training and permits.
About Jack Randall:
Jack is a zoologist on an adventure! His mission is to show off the world’s most amazing animals. And to do that he must explore the world’s most wild places… You can also catch Jack on his TV show with National Geographic Wild / Disney+ called "Out There with Jack Randall" . Jack was educated at Oxford University following an apprenticeship with the iconic Steve Irwin (which started when Jack was 14!).
What Are Creature Features?
All creatures have evolved different tricks to survive in the wild places they call their homes! Each animal has an awesome story about how they look, what they eat and even how they move! Creature Features spotlight the stories behind these crazy cool adaptations.
The Science:
With over 1 Million species on the IUCN Red List of Endangered Species, animal populations are in decline the world over. This is due to many reasons but what we know for sure is to keep the planet's amazing diversity of wildlife we need to learn as much as possible about where and how these creatures live their lives. Collating all the data we are gathering will help build a picture of which habitats are key to sustaining the largest diversity of life on planet earth.
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