Meerkat pups, ready to explore the world together!

Meerkat pups, about four weeks old in their first days of foraging with the group, like to huddle together and experience the new environment in support of each other. Here, the four pups of one of the habituated Kalahari Meerkat Project groups studied in their natural habitat at the Kalahari Research Centre, South Africa. After an alarm call, they still stayed behind at safety, watching attentively the adults who had already started foraging again. (KRC2024)
by Marta Manser