Take a look at the Oakland Zoo’s Meerkats playing in the summer sun. The zoo shared a new video of its growing meerkat “mob” on social media, showing them wrestling and cuddling together earlier this week. The zoo gained 5 New pups after one of its slender-tailed meerkats named Sandy gave birth in March. | KPIX CBS San Francisco Bay Area

The Meerkat is a social and curious animal that lives underground in groups called mobs, gangs or clans. Much of its time is spent digging and foraging for food including insects, roots, eggs, small reptiles and scorpions - the Meerkat is immune to the latter’s poison unlike mankind. https://www.fotawildlife.ie/animals-plants/view/meerkat | Fota Wildlife Park

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