Suricata suricatta (Suricate)
meerkat, slender-tailed meerkat [English]; stokstertmeerkat, graatjie-meerkat [Afrikaans]; Scharrtier, Surikate [German]; suricate [French]; todi, letoto [Sesotho]; kôtôkwe, kôtôkô, lekôtôkô [Setswana]; Xarab, !Naixarab [Nama] [Damara]
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Herpistidae (suricates and mongooses)
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Suricates on the lookout, Kgalagadi Transfontier
National Park, South Africa. [photo Coke
Smith
©] |
Suricate, Kgalagadi Transfontier National Park,
South Africa. [photo Andries Steenkamp
©] |
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