Meerkat

By: Casey H.

Physical Characteristics

• They are 20 inches or 51 centimeter

• The meerkats weighs at least 2 pounds

• The meerkat has a long brown tail with white spots

Habitat

• It lives in southwestern Angola to south Africa

• They live in savannah

Food

• The meerkats are carnivore • They eat beetles and mostly

grasshoppers

Protection/Predators

• The predators are large animals • They have few enemies• There enemies are hawks, eagles

and jackals

Life Span

• They live up to 5 to 15 years

Babies

• They are born blind and hairless

• They are in their moms stomach for 11 weeks

• They give birth to 2 to 4 cubs

Cool Facts

• They have a name group called colony

• They stay in a group the whole time