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• Meerkat Manor on Animal Planet
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Sources

• Fuehrer, T. "Suricata suricatta: Meerkat." University of Michigan Museum of Zoology. 2003. http://animaldiversity.ummz.umich.edu/site/accounts/information/Suricata_
  suricatta.html
• Roberts, Miles. "Warriors of the Kalahari." Smithsonian Zoogoer. January/February 2007. http://nationalzoo.si.edu/Publications/ZooGoer/2007/1/meerkats.cfm
• Sharpe, Lynda L. "Meerkats at play." Natural History Magazine. April 2007. http://www.naturalhistorymag.com/master.html?http://www.naturalhistory
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• "Animal altruism myth exposed." BBC. June 4, 1999. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/360255.stm