I took over the meerkat site on the 6th of November 2009. On my arrival i had only 6 meerkats at the burrows. The dominant female, i called Liefie, one mature subordinate female i later named Cindy, a juvenile meerkat i called Molly and three approximately 10-15 month old baby's, i called the three musketeers because at this age they are still very difficult to identify.
No prominent males in sight. on 8 November 2009 i saw a male meerkat sleeping in a small abandoned mongoose burrow about 800m from the main meerkat burrow system. On the 9th of November i saw the same male about 100m from the main burrows. The next morning after the girls and the baby's have left to forage i heard warning calls coming from the main burrows, and later on discovered that it was the same male meerkat that now has moved in with the girls, and because he was new and not at all habituated it would take him a couple of months before he would start getting use to humans. Because of his complaining every time we got near the burrows i named him Moner. Approximately 11 weeks later on the 25 of January 2010 Lifie gave birth to six meerkat baby's, all of witch are still surviving and are now 19 weeks old.
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