Growth - Meerkat babies take first steps

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See baby meerkats exploring outside of their nest box for the first time at the Symbio Wildlife Park in Helensburgh, a town outside of Sydney in New South Wales, Australia.



Baby meerkats do not start foraging for food until they are about 1 month old, and do so by following an older member of the group who acts as the pup’s tutor. Meerkats forage in a group with one “sentry” on guard watching for predators while the others search for food. Sentry duty is usually approximately an hour long. The meerkat standing guard makes peeping sounds when all is well.

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