A very warm Hi to all our wonderful, meerkat friends and family.
Thank you very much for the visiting us.
Also THANK YOU VERY MUCH FOR THE WONDERFUL REVIEWS, on Trip Advisor.
For some were the experience was disappointing, or not what you expected: Sorry about that. The weather can not be predicted, nor can be the meerkats. Overcast mornings, thee meerkats do come out of the burrows, but it just takes a but longer some times, as I said: the meerkats are unpredictable..... They do things how and when they please. We do not manipulate them to do things for us.
We try to limit our group sizes to 20 pax in the morning, but its not always possible. Some days we have to send some guest away, because we are fully booked. And that we do not want to do, since this is an unique experience. So we are now busy with habituating a second group of meerkats, so we can split the group up in two so that every one can have an approx equal view of them.
Tuesday, November 19, 2013
Wednesday, October 30, 2013
Good day to all our Meerkat friends
Re search goes on even more. On the 20 October, our dominant mail Mouner also took off on female hunting. Maybe he will now have better luck in finding a female since he is now by himself and not all his children following him around. Hi might have had some luck, but we think all his baggage was just to much for the females around. But now his is by himself so - so maybe now he will have more luck in finding a new partner.
But now we are not sure: Will he still come back, will all his kids accept him back, because his scent is no longer the same.
We have now noticed that the oldest male left in the family by the name of Sandy is now scent marking every member and there surroundings.
And still the the big question: Will the oldest daughter that is now just over 1 year old mature faster and will she take the leading role?
Watch this space!!!For any further news.
Re search goes on even more. On the 20 October, our dominant mail Mouner also took off on female hunting. Maybe he will now have better luck in finding a female since he is now by himself and not all his children following him around. Hi might have had some luck, but we think all his baggage was just to much for the females around. But now his is by himself so - so maybe now he will have more luck in finding a new partner.
But now we are not sure: Will he still come back, will all his kids accept him back, because his scent is no longer the same.
We have now noticed that the oldest male left in the family by the name of Sandy is now scent marking every member and there surroundings.
And still the the big question: Will the oldest daughter that is now just over 1 year old mature faster and will she take the leading role?
Watch this space!!!For any further news.
Wednesday, September 25, 2013
For further Info on what is going on in the meerkat family, after the 28 August babies.
Hi to all our wonderful friends. Hope you are all well?
Not that good here on our side. Liefie is dead and so are the babies. The one morning the whole family left the burrows for the day to go and forage, then a few hundred meters away from the burrows , 4 of the young males and Liefie turn around and went the opposite direction.
She might have through her doped state got a bit lost and followed the wrong ones, or she got lost and died somewhere in the feld or came back to the burrows.
For a couple of days the rest of the family members stayed at the same burrows, and every now and then one ore two went down in to the burrows. Why? Have they gone down to nurse Liefie, or where thy looking after the babies??????
At this stage, there is no females in the family that is the appropriate age to lactate and feed the babies.
So the babies died, and the rest left the burrows and went somewhere els.
We have contested that the dominant male Mouner took over in Liefies role to scent mark every member of the family.
But now what about the mating and the rest of the happenings in the family???? We are still not sure.
Will Mouner now go and find another female from another family and bring her back, or will one of the older daughters take over.
The oldest daughter is only one year old on the 23 Oct, will this hasten the proses of maturing or what??
For this: you must have to wait a bit longer for the answer,like us.
But we will keep you up to date.
Monday, September 23, 2013
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