Adorable baby meerkats explore the African wild for the first time – BBC wildlife
Posted on June 25, 2009 | 25 Comments
Baby Videos of Simon King spends a lot of time permitting a meerkat family to get used to his presence, as well as his efforts compensate off as he witnesses a baby meerkat’s initial ever steer of hold up over a burrow. See these lovable baby animals upon their initial journey in a furious African plains, from a BBC.
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Lucky bastard gets to pat baby meerkats!!
for claification , I believe the personal space is the burrow
Aww …. they say meerkat’s dont mind people as long as you dont get to close to their personal space as it will upset them and they would ethier run or attack
Can You Have 1 As Ur Pet?
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THEY ARE SOO ADORABLE~~
these things are little bitchessss.
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this is simply precious
Oh my gosh, it’s so adorable <3
The baby meerkat is officially the cutest thing on the planet.
Anyway, considering this intervention won’t have any serious consequence, which I think won’t, but I might be wrong, it’s a nice show. And I think the guy really handled the whole sound + signals method pretty well. I have a feeling that it’s also part of Nature’s functioning to reward those who are really brave, like that puppy there, who was brave enough to interact with “the strange” and was rewarded with some caress. He was the boldest, so he might evolve in a different way, because of this.
I very much agree but would suggest that already it is the the goal of many anthropological or in this case biological scientific efforts is to study without intervention of the subject already. However, I could expect that when the focus is media attention and capturing the subjects on video for a mainstream television show the relations with the animals may regrettably shift. If the BBC had “near-zero level of intervention” the show would not be as interesting, not that it is right/ethical.
I am watching this program on animal plant channel.
thanks.
Yes, yes, I see your point and I think it makes a lot of sense. Human interaction per se might not be a problem, I agree with that. And I also don’t think they might inherit any fear of us. But the thing is how far can we actually see the consequences of our cheer intervention? I mean, wouldn’t be nice if we set our scientific ethics to such degree of respect and understanding that we could only go on with our research if it didn’t include a near-zero level of intervention with other species?
i wanna touch them to
Oh, I’m sorry, I didn’t know that. Thank you for reminding me in such an elegant and deeply thoughtful way.
We are part of nature, idiot.
I disagree to a certain extent because fear of humans is not hereditary, it is behaviour which can only be learnt and so is not instinct. I would propose that a deer hand-reared by humans would not react in a negative way, although it would be unfair on the animal for not giving him/her natural socialisation.
Holy shit. Right on the spot. But what do you think about these kinds of “scientific” interventions? Like placing beacons on the animal to track their movement? I think we should aim for the least invasive techniques always, so I don’t think man should be put together with those animals. There’s no way we can understand just how far or deep that intervention will influence them, despite seeming an innocuous method.
touchy touchy…
I agree with you “DeynaStex”
Although they seem fairly tame, they really are wild animals. The reason they appear so friendly is because they have never had long term encounters with man in a bad way, such as bears or deer, who have the instinct to be afraid of man after generations of human-animal interaction. A domesticated relive of meerkats are ferrets, which are extremely similar in behavior in many ways. Meerkats deserve to be wild and free!
Did anyone notice that meerkat ears look similar to human ears? They looked similar to me anyway. o.O
meerkats are so cute i would love one as a pet