What do Meerkats eat?
The Meerkat usually eats insects if they can be find them. They will forage by digging among leaves, dirt, dry grasses, bark, pebbles, and anything that small bugs can hide in. The Meerkats do forage in small groups with one lookout, and take turns pulling duty as the lookout changing about every hour or so. They will also eat lizards, snakes, spiders, eggs, small or baby mammals, scorpions, millipedes, centipedes, plants and roots. If it is available, and they will eat small birds too. The Meerkat appears to be immune to most venomous scorpion bites. For more details, please see the sites listed below.
