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Usage examples of meerkat.

Often a group of meerkats will take the stance collectively, standing in a huddle and gazing in the same direction, looking like commuters waiting for a bus.

If I set a million meerkats fleeing in terror, the chaos would be indescribable.

I simply walked into what was surely the largest colony of meerkats in the world, one of the strangest, most wonderful experiences of my life.

These meerkats were most definitely a subspecies that had specialized in a fascinating and surprising way.

So, under the gaze of a thousand meerkats, I soaked, allowing fresh water to dissolve every salt crystal that had tainted me.

He confirmed what I had suspected, that these meerkats had gone for so many generations without predators that any notion of flight distance, of flight, of plain fear, had been genetically weeded out of them.

Nothing distracted the meerkats from their little lives of pond staring and algae nibbling.

In his jaws were a number of dead meerkats, which he ate during the night.

The storm, and the resulting minor earthquakes, did not perturb the meerkats in the least.

With the single, notable exception of the meerkats, there was not the least foreign matter on the island, organic or inorganic.

By dint of stuffing himself with meerkats, his weight went up, his fur began to glisten again, and he returned to his healthy look of old.

An entire nation of meerkats was on the move, their backs arched and their feet a blur.

I thought they were coming to attack me, that here was the reason why Richard Parker slept in the lifeboat: during the day the meerkats were docile and harmless, but at night, under their collective weight, they crushed their enemies ruthlessly.

To survive for so long in a lifeboat with a 450-pound Bengal tiger only to die up a tree at the hands of two-pound meerkats struck me as a tragedy too unfair and too ridiculous to bear.

The plain grew thick with meerkats, and the noises of their day started filling the air.