A meerkat mother has to watch over her hyper babies.
(02:57)The serious job of finding food must be taught.
(03:00)For meerkats, it’s a dangerous world out there and someone always needs to stand guard.
The world has gone mad for meerkats! Now for the first time go into the amazing world of the meerkat and see their social world in such close proximity and intimate detail that you might feel you are rubbing shoulders with the animals themselves. Filmed in remarkable close-up, this is what life is really like in the Kalahari Desert when you're just 12 inches tall. From births to deaths, babysitters to battles, eagle attacks to infanticide, get the inside scoop, both cute and cruel, on how meerkat society really works.
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