OMG, look at the guy bottom middle.
L to the O to the L. He’s totally mid-pile.
Kimberly S. says it was very cold at the Louisville Zoo that day, and the ‘Kats were piling together for warmths.
And P.S., I hear that Meerkat Manor 3 starts August 10, on Animal Planet









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Dem’s some flat ‘tocks!
*splode*
O
M
ggggggggg
*kathud*
I love the meerkats!!!! Gimme! Gimme!
So first glance I definitely thought they were crowding around some recently-hunted prey for lunch. Ew.
It looks like the one in the middle is all warm and toasty but the others are turning blue from the cold.
Yay! Flowers and the pesky kids!!!
Yes, Meerkat Manor starts again on Aug.10. The further adventures of Flower, etc. Love them!!
They never really did say whatever happened to Shakespeare. I guess since he never showed up again, they assumed he had passed. Or did I miss an episode?
Metz, you OK? Quick, jump in the pile!
DJ, they never said.
I thinks we need a COXCU on them flattocks.
Enhance!
(pleeeze?)
I’m unda the flat one.
lmao
Shakespeare’s disappearance is why I don’t watch Meerkat Manor anymore. Can’t handle the heart break.
i like the action shot of the guy in the middle leaning over mr. flat-tockinson. he’s all blurry, like he was giving the ‘tocks a zerber…
Really? Gathering for warmth? At first glance I thought that this was another NSFW shot or “they eat their own.”
To be honest, I’m not sure why people like watching Meerkat Mansion either.
I don’t wanna see abandoned babies die and family members bite/kill each other.
Even “Cops” & “Jerry Springer” won’t go that far.
In keeping with the meerkat theme Yahoo seems to have gotten the memo and has posted this photo:
http://news.yahoo.com/photo/070720/481/xmb10407200452
Here is a tribute to Shakepeare, but it is sad: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2PXRvcUQU40
Aww… I wants to skweesh them and make them all warm!
I knew you had too few meerkats on this site. It was an outrage.
But the last two posts make it all better.
30 seconds ’til half time and he’s tackled. Get the chains and measure that puppy – do we have a down? Where were his blockers?
awww. him has chilly MeerTocks.
After watching the Tribute to Shakespeare video, and reading about the dogfighting allegations brought against Michael Vick, I’m just about wiped out. Never needed the cute like I do today, thank you Meg. And of course, my cat is getting snorgled like there’s no tomorrow – lol.
Ooommpphhh!
I’m in ur pile stealin’ your warms.
/threadjack
Hey guys, doesn’t anybody use the CuteChat anymore? I thought “Casual Fridays” was the ‘happenin’ time? Here’s the link. http://wwwl.meebo.com/room/cuteoverload/
/end threadjack
I gave up on MeerKat Manor when poor little Blossom (?) was carried away by the hawk. These critters are so anthropormorphized (?) that is painfull to watch nature happen.
it’s a meerkat kinda day.
that one in the middle is hilarious. he’s all kerrsplatt!
i want to knit them some sweaters and little stocking caps.
Oh man. I soooo wanna be that lil’ guy on the bottom, gettin’ the most love.
Check out the one on the very right…. all like… “How dare you watch us?!” with evil death look
Timons galore! So cute, although I do wonder why they’re all greyish colur while the one on the very bottom has brown fur?
Old joke… One sez “I have a tale to tell”. Anudder one sez, “I too have a tale to tell”. The poor guy on the bottom of the pile sez, “My tail is told…”
That little guy dove under there just before I took the photo. I had another one of him cautiously circling the pile, looking for his moment. They had been switching positions for a while to trade who got to be on the inside, and I guess he had enough of taking turns! We were quite surprised they were outside at all, since the zoo provides them with an inside space as well (lest you think the meerkats were being frozen due to meanness).
Sorry to anyone traumatized thinking it was some sort of feeding frenzy.
And Dawna, I think actually all of them have brown bottoms and gray tops–it’s just that this makes it rather more obvious.
..Theres a few extra heads in there!
MEERKAT HYDRA
Latin name/ Species: Suricata Suricatta Polycephalus
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Carnivora
Family: Herpestidae
Habitat:
Appears only in winter at meerkat holes. Number of heads ranges between five to twenty.
Conservation status: Numbers are threatened due to global warming leading to fewer winters. However, occasionally known to appear in places that have excellent artificial cooling.
They look all puffy and kind of fat. The ones I’ve seen on Animal Planet don’t look like this. Of course, it’s probably very different living in Missouri than living in the African plains.
Subhangi! LOL!!
(OK maybe it’s the old Bio major in me… but man oh man…)
Purple belt they are fluffy because they are in the cold and have puffed their coats out to keep warm.. Our short haired cats do this too and so do our chickens with their feathers.
Just a thought…I think those are mongooses (mongeese?). The stripes and fluff give it away.
Hmmm mongoose or Meerkat.. Don’t know
I think Meerkat as I am sure the senderiner probably marked it but here are pictures of both I am still going with Meerkat but hey I am no Biology Major and Subangi snicker..
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Meerkat.bristol.zoo.arp.jpg
this was a banded mongoose
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Mungo.jpg
mongoose = pink nose
meerkat = black nose
A pile’o'black nosicles. Meerkats it is!
Ooh, maybe!
Woah I live in Louisville and I’ve seen those exact anerable meerkitlets.
Thanks for the explanation, Annie! I thought that might be the case. I see all kinds of fluffies in the winter, but just never had experienced meerkat fluffitude!
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“wrr wrr wrrr
ya lil’ thing, we eat
ya up…”
LOL
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Those are some cute meers! (I especially like the expression on the one at the far right. It’s all: “Heh, heh, heh. Glad it ain’t me over there!”)
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