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some dominant and roaming males. The meerkats espe-

cially younger animals are marked with dye to differen-

tiate them.[7] As the meerkats are habituated, they would

tend to ignore the camera crew as long as their personal

space was respected.[10]

1.1 National variations

The UK and US versions of the show have the same con-

tent for most episodes; however, the latter was some-

times edited for length to allow for more commercial

breaks. Content was also sometimes altered; mating

scenes in particular were often removed from the US ver-

sion. Animal Planet US occasionally changed the names

of meerkats and episode titles.[7] Two of Flowers pups

were renamed from Ren and Stumpy to Len and Squiggy;

the title of the episode was also changed.[12][13][14] De

la Soul (named for the rap group of the same name),one of the sisters who started the Starsky group, was re-

named Whoopi in the US as a tribute to actressWhoopi

Goldberg, an early fan of the series.[12][13] Animal Planet

US has also renamed some of Flowers pups born in sea-

son three to honour two other famous fans of the show,

Elizabeth Taylor and Denis Leary.[7] Several episodes

were renamed: the title of the final episode of the sec-

ond series was changed from The Killing Fields to

The Quiet Fields.[12][13] During the third series, the

third episodes title was changed from Somethings Got

to Give to Sister Act (another Goldberg reference),

while the sixth episodes title changed from The House

of Zappa to Sibling Rivalry.[12][13]

2 Narrative

See also: List of Meerkat Manor meerkatsandList of

Meerkat Manor episodes

The show follows several groups of meerkats, who act

Theuse ofunderground cameras allows thecrewto capture never

before seen footage of a meerkat mother and her pups deep in

their burrow.

communally for the benefit of the groups in which theylive. These groups are typically led by a dominant female

and male, who maintain almost exclusive rights to have

offspring.[15] The group followed most closely is known

as the Whiskers family. This group was chosen because

of its matriarch Flower, an unusually successful dominant

female who led the group for five years.[8][16] During se-

ries three, Flower died from a snake bite and was suc-

ceeded by her daughter Rocket Dog.[7][17]

Animals in neighbouring groups were highlighted in each

series as well.[7] In the first series, a group called the

Lazuli were shown frequently in competition with the

Whiskers family, and the opening credits referred to them

as the neighbours from hell.[15] Although their dom-

inant male Big Si died between series, the Lazuli ap-

peared in the second series, mostly as a source of roving

males.[18][19] Another group called the Commandoes, led

by a one-eyed male named Hannibal, introduced them-

selves by attacking the Lazuli burrow, killing a pup and

badly wounding the babysitting adult. The Commandoes

became the new major rivals in the area, killing the pups

of evicted Whiskers female Mozart and taking over someof the Whiskers territory.[20][21]

The Whiskers new neighbours were the Zappa and the

Starsky.[19] Although smaller than the Whiskers, the

Zappa attacked frequently, and when they fled after one

attack, the Whiskers in a rare occurrence adopted an

abandoned Zappa pup.[17][22] The Starsky group, on the

other hand, was no threat to the Whiskers. Formed by a

trio of Flowers daughters permanently evicted from the

Whiskers, the small group was ravaged by illness, preda-

tors, and a lack of new pups.[23] The constantly strug-

gling Starsky succumbed in the penultimate episode, with

the death of the last survivor, Mozart, who was killed byajackal.[24] Former Whiskers femaleMaybellinebroke

away from the group at the end of the third series, form-

ing a new group called the Aztecs which became the

Whiskers rivals in the fourth series.[25]

2.1 Changes in representation

While the show portrays real events among the Kala-

hari Meerkats, it also removes repetitive elements of the

animals lives. Because many days are filled with be-

haviour related to grooming and foraging, these routineswere often left out of the show in favour of more unusual

events.[26]

The meerkats are all named by Kalahari Meerkat volun-

teers; the individual who first sees a new litter emerge

from the burrow is awarded naming rights. This has pro-

duced a variety of names, frequently drawn from volun-

teers favourite books, movies, musical groups, family and

friends, historical figures and geographical locations.[26]

Animal Planet sometimes renamed the meerkats for nar-

ration, arguing that researchers names were too limited,

often relating to spices and food condiments.[7][14] Be-

cause of these changes, fans of the series who seek infor-mation on the Friends of the Kalahari Meerkat Project

website sometimes have trouble locating particular ani-
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mals. The project has created a list of alterations to help

viewers connect the animals on the show to their real-life

counterparts, and to match episodes to the monthly KMP

Life History reports. The list, however, is only available

to paying members of their website.[26][27]

Two of the major Whiskers family rivals were compos-ites, created with footage and blended stories from mul-

tiple groups. For example, the Commandoes group on

the show uses some of events from the real Commandoes

group, but was primarily shown with footage from the Vi-

vian research group including its dominant couple.[28]

Similarly, the shows Zappa group was mostly presented

using footage from a group called The Young Ones

(named after theBritish television show); however, the

actual story and dominant pair were from the real Zappa

Group.[16][28] Axel, the abandoned pup from series three,

has a research number that indicates he was probably a

Young Ones pup, rather than being a Zappa as the show

claims.[29]

3 Reception

Meerkat Manor has been well received by viewers and

critics alike. In October 2007, it was Animal Planets

top series, with an audience of more than four million

in the United States alone.[30] In the United States, its

first episode was viewed by one million viewers, and the

second and third series premieres were watched by ap-

proximately 800,000 viewers each. The fourth series

premiere did not fare as well, with fewer than 500,000

viewers.[31] The viewership of the on-demandvideo of-

ferings for Meerkat Manorgrew 20% in September 2007,

when Discovery offered each third series episode, video

capsules of series one and two, top ten moments from the

show, and a memorial sequence for Flower.[32] Building

on the success of Meerkat Manors unique format, An-

imal Planet commissioned two similarly formatted pro-

grammes: Orangutan Island, which focuses on a group

of orphaned orangutans at the Nyaru Menteng Orangutan

Rescue and Rehabilitation Center, and Lemur Street,

which looks at the lives of two rival gangs ofring-tailed

lemursinMadagascar.[33][34]

Some fans have criticized the show for its non-

interference policy with regard to the meerkats, asking

why the film crew and researchers do not giveanti-venom

to snake-bitten meerkats, oreuthanizethose dying and

suffering.[30] US Executive Producer Mick Kaczorowski

pointed out that Meerkat Manorwas a show about the real

lives and deaths of the meerkats. The research group has

a policy against film crews interceding in natural events

because they don't want to have an effect on the gene

pool by saving a weaker meerkat [or] affecting the out-

come of whats natural in the Kalahari.[8] As theresearch

project is monitoring extquotedbl...the breeding successand survival of individuals and ... the factors that af-

fect reproduction and survival interfering in the natu-

ral processes would render the research results invalid.[26]

There is one exception to this rule: researchers will euth-

anize meerkats that contracttuberculosis, to prevent out-

breaks that would threaten both the meerkat population

and nearby cattle.[8][26]

3.1 Awards

Meerkat Manorwas nominated for a 2005 Jackson Hole

Wildlife Film Festival Award in the Animal Behaviour

category, and in 2007 for Best Original Score.[35] At

the 2006 Wildscreen Festival, the series was a final-

ist in three categories: Animal Behaviour, Innova-

tion, and Popular Broadcast.[35][36] The series won

Gold Statues in Natural History and Cinematogra-

phy, and a Silver Statue for Writing, at the 2006 Omni

Awards.[35] The eighth episode of series three, Jour-

neys End which depicts the death of Whiskers matri-arch Flower, was awarded the 2008 Wildscreen Festival

Panda Award in the Five Award for Popular Broadcast

Programme category.[37] Meerkat Manorwas a two-time

Gold Medal winner in the Nature & Wildlife category

at the New York Festivals Award Gala, in 2006 for series

one, and again in 2007 for series one and two. [35][38] The

series was nominated for twoPrimetime Emmy Awards

in 2007: one for Outstanding Cinematography for Non-

fiction Programming and one for Outstanding Picture

Editing for Nonfiction Programming.[35][39] In 2009 the

series was awarded the Grand Award at theNew York

FestivalsInternational Television Programming and Pro-

motion Awards in the Family Programmes category.[40]

3.2 Impact on the genre

Meerkat Manors innovative new methods of filming al-

lowed the Kalahari Project scientists a chance to uncover

aspects of meerkat life never before seen, including life

within the burrows. The film crew was also the first to

capture meerkatinfanticideon film.[11]

While many documentaries maintain an emotional dis-

tance from their subjects, Meerkat Manor due to its

extended length, soap opera-like narration, romanticiza-tion of the animals lives, and close-up filming techniques,

provides a closer, more personal view of the meerkats.[41]

Viewers describe being emotionally involved in the ani-

mals lives, sometimes forgetting they are watching a doc-

umentary. The meerkats frequently short lives and brutal

deaths become surprising and disturbing to some audi-

ences. This experimental format was seen as expanding

the boundaries of both the naturedocumentarygenre and

the nature of reality TV.[42]

Like the meerkats,Manoris an odd beast.

The crew is forbidden to intervene, and theproducers don't sugarcoat the animals less

cuddly habits (infidelity, abandonment of
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young, occasional cannibalism). But the

meerkats are named and given human traits

(courageous, caring, bully[ing] extquot-

edbl), and their antics and tragedies take place

over a sound track. Manor is both brutal and

melodramatic and thus more devastating than

most documentary or scripted drama.James Poniewozik, Time Magazine, 2

November 2007[43]

4 Merchandise

Cover of the original UK release ofMeerkat Manor: The Story

of Flower of the Kalahari

A book written by Professor Tim Clutton-Brock enti-

tledMeerkat Manor: The Story of Flower of the Kala-

hari(ISBN 0-297-84484-9) was released in the UK in a

hardback edition on 4 October 2007.[44] The book fo-

cuses on Flowers life and the story of the Whiskers,

tracing how the group started, providing a timeline of

Flowers life, and detailing all of the pups she had over

her lifetime, as well as their current locations. The book

also gives more background on how the Kalahari Meerkat

Project started, the research goals and results, and re-

searchers personal lives.[45] A paperbackedition of the

book has been announced for release in the United States

bySimon & Schusterthrough their Touchstone imprinton 15 April 2008. The US release will be titledMeerkat

Manor: Flower of the Kalahari (ISBN 1-4165-8767-

5).[46][47] In November 2007, Discovery Communica-

tions announced that it was partnering withActivisionto

make a video game based on Meerkat Manoras the first in

a new series of nature-based games. The announcement

stated the game would be released to multiple platforms

in late 2008, but no game was ever released.[48]

4.1 Film

Main article:Meerkat Manor: The Story Begins

Oxford Scientific Films produced a feature film for Dis-

covery Films that acts as aprequelto theMeerkat Manor

series.[49] Originally announced asFlower: Queen of the

Kalahari,Meerkat Manor: The Story Beginswas directed

by Chris Barker and Mike Slee and narrated by Whoopi

Goldberg.[50] The film documents Flowers early life as

she grows from a young meerkat to become one of the

most successful leaders of the Whiskers clan.[51] The

film was introduced at the 2008 Tribeca Film Festival

in the Spotlight section,[50] and then aired in the United

States on Animal Planet on 25 May 2008 as a lead-in

to a thirty-minuteMaking of Meerkat Manor: the Story

Begins special.[52] It was released toRegion 1 DVD in

North America on 3 June 2008, with the Making of

Meerkat Manorspecial, and another special,The Science

of Meerkat Manor, included as extras.[53]

The film included re-edited footage and a new musical

score. The Whiskers story was simplified, with the Lazuli

being the only rival group to appear in the film. Unlikewith the Meerkat Manor series, the film does not actu-

ally depict any of the real Whiskers meerkats. Untrained

meerkat actors play the role of Flower and her family,

with the camera crew searching out appropriately-aged

meerkats, then following them until the meerkats acted

in a way that was needed for the film. Flower herself was

depicted by approximately eight female meerkats.[14]

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The Kalahari Meerkat Project

Friends of the Kalahari Meerkat Project

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