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            The meerkat or suricate (Suricata suricatta) is a small mammal and a member of the mongoose family. It inhabits all parts of the Kalahari Desert in Botswana and South Africa. A group of meerkats is called a "mob", "gang" or "clan". A meerkat clan often contains about 20 meerkats at a time, but some superfamilies have had 50 or more. 
“Meerkat" is a loanword from Afrikaans. The name has a Dutch origin but by misidentification. Dutch meerkat refers to the "guenon", a monkey of the Cercopithecus genus.
Meerkats are small burrowing animals, living in large underground networks with multiple entrances which they leave only during the day. Meerkats have an average life span of 12–14 years.
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Het stokstaartje (Suricata suricatta) is een klein roofdier dat tot de mangoesten behoort. Hij wordt ook wel "aardmannetje" genoemd. Het bewoont alle delen van de Kalahari in zuidelijk Afrika (Angola, Botswana, Namibië en Zuid-Afrika). 
In het Afrikaans (en het Engels) heten stokstaartjes "meerkat".
In het Nederlands is "meerkat" de naam voor een groep apen.
Van alle mangoesten zijn de stokstaartjes de meest sociale. Stokstaartjes leven in groepen van 20 à 30, tot maximaal 50 dieren en verblijven in holen. Deze holen bouwen ze uit tot gangenstelsels, soms tot een oppervlakte van 15 m². In deze gangen worden speciale kamers aangelegd: slaapkamers, kraamkamers en zelfs toiletten. Deze laatste worden schoongemaakt door de mestkevers waarmee ze samenleven. Alleen overdag verlaten de stokstaartjes hun holen.
Stokstaartjes eten vooral insecten, spinnen en slakken.
Stokstaartjes krijgen per keer 2 tot 5 jongen, die worden gezoogd tot ze ongeveer 3 maanden oud zijn. Circa drie weken na de geboorte zijn de jongen groot genoeg om hun eerste passen buiten de holen te zetten. De maximale levensverwachting is 12 à 14 jaar.  
Deze foto is gemaakt in Zoo Duisburg Duitsland
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Taken in: Deutschland / Nordrhein-Westfalen / Duisburg / Stadtteil Duissern (show map)

Taken on: November 14, 2018

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