What is a meerkat thinking?
Checks the horizon every four seconds, all day. Has never once found anything.
It is a real job with a rota. One meerkat takes sentry duty while the rest forage, and it gives different calls for an aerial threat and a ground threat - the group dives for a bolthole or scans the sky depending on which one it hears.
The dark patches around the eyes work like a cricketer's eye black, cutting glare so a sentry can look toward the sun for raptors.
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