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Meerkat

Mammals

A small mongoose found in southern Africa, living in areas with stony, often calcareous ground across a variety of arid, open habitats, including the Kalahari Desert, and organized into cooperatively breeding social groups. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/

Facts
Classification
Diet
Insectivore 1
System (Realm)
Terrestrial 2
Relationship to People
Disease Vector 3
Living or Extinct
Yes 3
Derived from this species' own Conservation Status: this atlas's IUCN category list has no Extinct value, so a set conservation-status is itself evidence of living status (w-bfill-g5-0924 browse backfill).
Scientific Name
Suricata suricatta 3
Conservation Status
Least Concern 3
IUCN Red List, assessed by Jordan, N.R. and Do Linh San, E. in 2015 (population stable, widespread across southern Africa, present in several protected areas).
Connections

Child Taxon Of

Herpestidae, Taxa
Source Catalogue of Life

In Biome

Desert, Biomes
Source Meerkat (Wikipedia)

In Ecosystem

Kalahari Desert, Ecosystems
Source Kalahari Research Centre
In the Other Atlases
  • Also in Geography Atlas: Africa, found in there.
  • Also in Geography Atlas: Belgium, found in there.
  • Also in Geography Atlas: Ecuador, found in there.
Sources
1. EltonTraits 1.0 (Wilman et al. 2014)
2. GBIF Species API
GBIF Species APIView the Source
3. Meerkat (Wikipedia)
Wikimedia Foundation
  • Lead and Habitat section
    a small mongoose found in southern Africa
  • Taxobox
  • Conservation status section
    The meerkat is listed as Least Concern on the IUCN Red List; the population trend appears to be stable.
  • article text (relationship to people), EntityId 267731
    Meerkats can transmit rabies to humans, but yellow mongooses appear to be more common vectors.
  • In Biome: Desert, Wikipedia 'Meerkat': commonly living in arid, open habitats with little woody vegetation
View the Source
Wikidata: Meerkat
Wikidata Q134015, class allow-list match (w-wdresolver-0926)View the Source
Kalahari Research Centre
Kalahari Research CentreIn Ecosystem: Kalahari Desert, Home page, About
Quote, In Ecosystem: Kalahari Desert, Home page, About
located in Kuruman River Reserve in Northern South Africa
View the Source
Catalogue of Life
Species 2000 & ITIS Catalogue of LifeChild Taxon Of: HerpestidaeView the Source
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