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If you've watched Disney's The Lion King, you must be familiar with the character Timon. Well, Timon is a meerkat. Meerkats, whose scientific name is Suricata suricatta, are small carnivores belonging to the mongoose family.
Meerkats, sometimes called suricates, live in burrows underground and are organised in family groups called mobs, gangs, or clans. These mobs are found all over the Kalahari Desert, which stretches across Botswana, Namibia and South Africa.
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