I realize that I haven't yet posted any photos of my new ratties. These pretty boys came into my life in April this year.

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The Meerkat Manor researchers have two tricks up their sleeves for getting the meerkats onto the scales to be weighed. They have egg. And they ( Read more... )

Drie Doring are one of the oldest meerkat groups on the Manor, one of the first groups to be habituated when the project was started in 1993 ( Read more... )

I took four thousand photographs of meerkats while visiting the Meerkat Manor. It is taking me a while to sort through them all.
Anyway, here are all the individual photos of the Lazuli meerkats.
Up next: Drie Doring.
The meerkats of Lazuli


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JaXX are one of the newer meerkat groups on the Manor, formed in 2008 by Diana, a female evicted from the Lazuli. Diana still leads the group, and she is by now one of the oldest meerkats on the Manor (she was born in December 2004).
The XX's are supposed to be capitalized. Don't ask me why!

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This last Sunday I went to look for otters at the Grizzly Island Wildlife Area.
Grizzly Island is managed by the California Department of Fish and Wildlife. In years past you used to be able to pay the entry fee at the ( Read more... )

Once upon a time the Whiskers had it all. They were the celebrity meerkats, the darlings of the silver screen. With Flower and Zaphod to lead them, they held the prime territory at the heart of the Manor, feasting on scorpions and lazing away the long hot days of summer at the Kalahari Country Club (aka the Big Dam).
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It was two wonderful weeks full of heat and sand and meerkats (and squirrels and mongooses and bat-eared foxes). It is the end of summer at Meerkat Manor, which should have been the rainy season, but this year there has been no rain (which means, sadly, that none of this season's pups have survived).
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I'm in England, so it's time to visit the British Wildlife Centre!

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Reason number one. Most of the muskrat is under the water.

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