Close Encounters of the Meerkat Kind

The Makgadikgadi Salt Pans are the stage of Africa’s second largest zebra migration. You could say, everything happens on a large scale here. But it pays to notice the smaller denizens of the pans too. While staying at Jack’s Camp on the edge of the Makgadikgadi, a mob of habituated meerkats likes to get quite close to avid explorers. Perhaps not Botswana’s wildest encounter, but certainly the cutest.

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The meerkats have been habituated to humans for research purposes. These curious predators have unique behaviours, such as their standing-position that they use to keep a look-out for prey and predators. If you sit in their midst, they might even use you as a vantage point. It might be a bit uncomfortable at first but simply go with the flow. After all, this is as close to wildlife as one can get.

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