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Showing posts with label Animals - Meercats. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Animals - Meercats. Show all posts

Sunday, January 1, 2017

HAPPY NEW YEAR 2017 - The lovable MEERKAT and how his toughness is an inspiration for the year ahead

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Always vigilant
Meerkats are smaller than a pet cat, and vulnerable to bigger and stronger predators.  They live in an inhospitable desert where surviving and earning a living entail defying incredible odds. 

They have developed extraordinary physical and social qualities.  For example, they have immunity to scorpion venom, and thus they routinely make a meal out of them.

Meerkats organize themselves into groups called mobs,  gangs or clans in order to increase their hunting and defense effectiveness. 

They have a well-organized division of labor, and they take turns acting as sentries so as to protect their group as they hunt, sleep, or nurse their babies. 

To defend their territory they do not hesitate to confront much more dangerous and bigger animals such as cobras. 

Their intelligence, courage, social organization, and vigilance are key to their survival, and should serve us as inspiration as we start this new year.

When the pups were were born on August 18 they only weighed a few grams, but they now weigh 150 grams each
Babies already show their fierceness
We are on our own.  Governments fail again and again to do their duty of protecting the population.  Their business is to remain in power and to profit from it.  In some countries their behavior borders on outright treason.

In Europe the globalist government elite continues to welcome millions of migrants who engage in crime, rape, and terror against the population.

In the United States President Obama feigns moral outrage at the hacking of the Democrats' emails. 

What Obama won't acknowledge is the ineptness, deception, corruption and depravity of Democrat government officials exposed by that hacking.  Had not someone leaked those emails, voters would have chosen a president in ignorance of the depth of the Democrat cesspool. 



Obama imported hundreds of thousands of Muslim migrants into the USA.  He also brought with him antipathy against whites and Israel, government incompetence, abuse of power, deception, anger stemming from personal shortcomings, and much more from the Islamic world in which he grew up.

Solid family values
Now in his final days in office Obama lays a political minefield for the next president - again putting partisan interests way ahead of those of the country.

We need to be aware of the moral weakness of our politicians.  Some of them impose a nefarious agenda through the use of political correctness to silence us while they enact policies that wreak havoc with our lives and our society. 
 
We need to be vigilant of the of government, and of people and institutions with the power to mold society, such as the media, schools and universities. 

We need to protect our children against institutionalized indoctrination that undermines the family and traditional values.

We humans are animals too, and we are wired to protect ourselves, our families, our countries, our economies, our way of life.

The ongoing globalist agenda of turning people into wimps of delicate nature, easily offended, unable to deal with opposing points of view, and easily intimidated by authority, goes against what we really are:  resilient creatures meant to survive in a tough world.   

Continue reading about meerkat lifestyle, see more images, and watch cute VIDEOS

Thursday, August 7, 2014

FRIENDLY MEERKAT PHOTOBOMBS A GROUP OF FISHERMEN

This friendly chap clearly thought he was 'one of the lads' when he photobombed a group of fishermen in southern Africa.  The curious meerkat was a constant companion of photographer Dave Lewis during his surf-fishing trips for silver kob and other fish along the wild Namibia coast.  Mr Lewis said while he and his friends stopped to fish, the meerkat would spend its days digging holes in the sand and foraging.  
The curious meerkat was a constant companion of photographer Dave Lewis during his surf-fishing trips for silver kob and other fish along the wild Namibia coast
YOU CAN BARELY SEE THE LITTLE GUY AT THE BOTTOM LEFT
 He said: 'This little chap's name was pronounced "curry" but spelled some other way.  'At the time, I was regularly hosting surf-fishing trips to the Skeleton Coast in Namibia, when we stopped to fish, he would spend the day digging holes in the sand and generally foraging around.  Whenever a bird flew over, he would run to the nearest angler and sit as tight as he could to their legs for protection. 
Meerkats are mostly indigenous to desert areas of Africa, and are famous for their upright posture, which they use to gaze on the plains where they live and stay alert for predatorsMEERCATS are squirrel-sized group animals, which are part of the mongoose family. 
 
They are mostly indigenous to desert areas of Africa, and are famous for their upright posture, which they use to gaze on the plains where they live and stay alert for predators. 
 
The tunnel-dwellers have a varied diet of lizards, birds, insects and fruit, and can be trained as rodent-catchers due to their skills at hunting.
 
Source - http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2716929/The-meer-merrier-Fishermen-welcome-friendly-meerkat-group-cheeky-animal-photobombs-group-snap.html

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Photo: A young meerkat nestles with its adult caretakers.More on Meerkats

BBC feature on meerkats, with videos
http://www.bbc.co.uk/nature/life/Meerkat

All about meerkats
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meerkat

Meerkat Manor, the TV show - Videos
http://www.animalplanet.com/tv-shows/meerkat-manor

Photo on the right
National Geographic
http://animals.nationalgeographic.com/animals/mammals/meerkat/

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