noun

• A small southern African mongoose, especially the suricate.

  Suricata and other genera, family Herpestidae: three species

  ‘Over the past year, we have been making a film on meerkats in the southern Kalahari.’

  More example sentences

  • ‘There are wallabies, meerkats, flamingoes, maras and tamarin monkeys in both zoos.’
  • ‘Some animals, including meerkats, are able to distinguish between close and more distant relatives and non-relatives.’
  • ‘Faced with a potentially deadly diet, adult meerkats teach their pups how to deal with scorpions and other prey, a new study shows.’
  • ‘Soon after arrival we noticed two meerkats that appeared unusually tame.’