Meerkats also climb other animals, including, occasionally a warthog, which was the inspiration for Timon and Pumbaa, in the Lion King.
Professional wildlife photographer Will Burrard Lucas got much more than he bargained for on his recent visit to the Botswana wilderness.
Will spent six days in the Makgadikgadi Pan, a gigantic salt flat in the north east region of Botswana, taking photos of his favourite critters: meerkats.
The family of meerkats he followed had just welcomed some new adorable additions, and both the parents and the kids quickly got used to Will being around. In fact, so used to him they decided that if he was going to hang around he was going to make himself useful!
Here’s a wonderful behind the scenes video of a photographer’s meerkat photography project in Botswana.
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