Meerkats

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Websites to visit

Website 1
Find out more about meerkats.

Website 2
Watch meerkat pups play, explore and nap.

Website 3
See some meerkats in a zoo.

Website 4
Find out how zookeepers keep meerkats busy looking for food.

Website 5
Watch meerkats chase away a snake.

Website 6
Print out and shade in a picture of meerkats. (Scroll down to "Meerkat Colouring Page" and click on "Download".)

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About this book

Beginners
Meerkats

What’s a group of meerkats called? Where do they live? What do they eat? Discover the answers to these questions and many more in this entertaining introduction to meerkats, with simple text, stunning photographs and detailed illustrations on every page. Also includes links to carefully selected websites with video clips and more information.

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James Maclaine

James Maclaine joined Usborne Publishing in 2010. Since then he’s written books about meerkats, donkeys and several critters besides, come up with hundreds of drawing, doodling and colouring ideas, and devised puzzles and things to do for a range of activity books. But an illustrated thesaurus and a picture book about manners are the titles that he’s proudest to have authored. Recently, James walked a thousand miles across France and Spain, but he decided to come back to his job in London — because what could be better than writing books for children?

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