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meerkat
The meerkat or suricate (''Suricata suricatta'') is a small carnivoran belonging to the mongoose family (Herpestidae). It is the only member of the genus ''Suricata''. Meerkats live in all parts of the Kalahari Desert in Botswana, in much of the Namib Desert in Namibia and southwestern Angola, and in South Africa. A group of meerkats is called a "mob", "gang" or "clan". A meerkat clan often contains about 20 meerkats, but some super-families have 50 or more members. In captivity, meerkats have an average life span of 12–14 years, and about half this in the wild.
==Etymology==
"Meerkat" is a loanword from Afrikaans (). The name has a Dutch origin, but by misidentification. In Dutch, ''meerkat'' means the guenon, a monkey of the ''Cercopithecus'' genus. The word ''meerkat'' is Dutch for "lake cat", but although the suricata is a feliform, it is not of the cat family; the word possibly started as a Dutch adaptation of a derivative of Sanskrit ''markaṭa'' मर्कट = "ape", perhaps in Africa via an Indian sailor on board a Dutch East India Company ship.
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