If boredom is a huge guy that wears black-framed glasses, I think his name is Dwayne. Dwayne is my youngest brother who enjoys watching the Animal Planet. I know nothing's bad in watching those kind of shows, but a normal 21-year-old guy would rather watch the
FIFA World Cup telecast than watch a documentary about meerkats. "Can meerkats play soccer?" I asked him.
"Nope, but they can dig deep holes," he mumbled, his eyes still focused on the merry animals playing a game of tug-of-war in the soil.
According to Dwayne, these desert animals are the smallest members of the mongoose family. Their appearance is very different from other mongooses because of their brown spots and stripes. They are commonly seen in South and Southwest Africa, however, there are also those that thrive near the Kalahari desert. They dig holes under the African land to keep away from the heat of the sun and avoid predators like hyenas, lions,
venomous snakes, and wild boars. Meerkats are surprisingly sociable animals, but of course, you can't have them as pets. They live under the ground to form mobs and gangs and find food like bugs and insects. They don't need water that much because they get their moisture from the juicy insects that they eat.
