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    Kool for kats: How meerkats conquered the world
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    Whenever Britain is sad or has experienced loss, like after Princess Diana's funeral, the next thing that comes on the television is Meerkats United. They endear us and give us a sense of togetherness. They used to show meerkats on the monitors on the Heathrow Express because they calm people down before a flight. Meerkats make us happy. Full Article at The Independent
    Whenever Britain is sad or has experienced loss, like after Princess Diana's funeral, the next thing that comes on the television is Meerkats United. They endear us and give us a sense of togetherness. They used to show meerkats on the monitors on the Heathrow Express because they calm people down before a flight. Meerkats make us happy.
    SOURCE: The Independent 1 month ago
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Kool for kats: How meerkats conquered the world
  1. You have to think about what cuteness is
    SOURCE: The Independent 1 month ago
  2. I thought it would have been nice to see them looking out
    SOURCE: The Independent 1 month ago
  3. They start by presenting them with dead scorpions whose stings have been removed ... When the infant is used to that, they give them live scorpions with removed stings before gradually moving to a group of young finding and killing a scorpion themselves.
    SOURCE: The Independent 1 month ago
  4. It bowled people over – nobody expected these funny little mongooses of the African savannah to be quite so extraordinarily cute.
    SOURCE: The Independent 1 month ago
  5. But they're great fun. Roo is the bigger one and is definitely more bolshy, but when it came to training them, he wasn't as intelligent. We used a rewards system to get Liam pretending to kill a rubber snake and he loved it, but Roo won't touch it – he just looked confused.
    SOURCE: The Independent 1 month ago
  6. But what's really endearing about meerkats
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  7. It's said there are 5,000 pet meerkats in South Africa ... It's terrible. They become attention deprived, which can lead to serious mental issues; they stink, they bite and they will tear your house to pieces.
    SOURCE: The Independent 1 month ago
  8. Generally it's a feeling we get when we see an animal that reminds us of ourselves. That's why we're attracted to animals that stand up and have eyes at the front of their face, like monkeys and penguins.
    SOURCE: The Independent 1 month ago
  9. We get a lot of people coming through to see the meerkats because they've seen the adverts ... Almost every family you see, the first thing they say is 'Comparethemeerkat' or 'seemples'.
    SOURCE: The Independent 1 month ago

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