Meerkat Versus Scorpion - Battle To The Death | Digs Up Arachnid & Eats Stinger Pinchers & Body 4K
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Chapters:
00:00 Enrichment MEERKATS
01:05 Pablo The Meerkat Hunts Scorpion!
03:17 Meerkats As Pets?
04:10 Meerkat Play - Need Family (MOB)
04:21 Conclusion - Observe In Nature Or Sanctuary/Zoo
We take a couple of rescue meerkats on an enrichment walk into a game reserve next door from where the cheetah project is located and let them experience the wilderness. I looked under a bunch of rocks until I found one that had a burrowing scorpion under it. Pablo, one of the meerkats, waltz over and smelled it! Hiding inside its burrow. He worked his legs and claws and extracted it with precision! Nicely, I was there recording it to watch this natural event take place.
Meerkats are omnivorous, meaning they eat both plant and animal. Grubs, insects, fruits, scorpions and even snakes are on the menu of meerkats. Amazingly, meerkats have some immunity to regional snakes and scorpions. It's an adaptation like their cousins, the mongoose which also have immunity to certain snakes and scorpions.
Meerkats are quite cute and smart but I emphasize how they are NOT pets and don't make good pets. Wild animals should be personal pets for folks. Rescues, rehabilitating ones for release, in a sanctuary because they can't be released (like found on a farm alone or parents killed) and certain quality zoos are the places where I agree a meerkat or wild animal could be housed and cared for. Pablo and Zulu are rescue meerkats that someone found alone and needed a home or would die. Running Wild Conservation brought them in and care for them.
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We take couple of captive/rescue meerkats for an enrichment walk in the Game Reserve (farm) next door and Pablo sniffs out a burrowing scorpion! A fight breaks out and guess who wins... (sarcasm😉)
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I didn't know meerkats would eat scorpions whole. Thanks for sharing that story with us!
Sure thing! Bugs, grubs, scorpions and even SNAKES!
We need them in Texas where I live,a scorpion crawled on my mother’s leg late one night and almost stung her,luckily it didn’t!
They need their protein.
Dolph makes meerkat sound. Meerkat: “you just made 5 grammatical errors while telling me you have gas.” 😂
Probably insulted em...
You are so lucky to have a life with such direct contact with nature, thanks for sharing it
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One of the cutest animals around.
Certainly is! Very cute. Their vocalization is really cute.
Another reason to admire meerkats!
They're very cute and industrious BUT can and will BITE! Teeth🦷
Amazing they share traits with the Mongoose, especially the immunity to venom. Beautiful animals!
Couldn't agree more!
I remember watching ‘Meetkats United’ on the BBC when I was a kid, had it on video, must have rewatched it 50 times, have loved them ever since. Thanks for this.
That's cool. They are clever animals.
Lots of wild animals are adorable. Lots of wild animals make terrible pets. If they're born free, let them live free. Thank you for sharing. See you next time.
True!
One of my most favorite videos is from you as I recall: the meerkat vigorously trying to get at a cheetah, and the cheetah took it as an opportunity to get a back scratch (from the meerkat).
That was very cool! A BIG predator loving an enemy (meerkat) that would not love it back and didn't care. That was Kenji the cheetah who would purr for meerkats but not people who cared for him. He purred once or twice for me but not very long.
@@CheetahWhisperer yes! I have it saved as a favorite. It's cute and comical. 😀
I remember that video well 😊
I remember that one too! Very funny.
I knew meerkats are smart and cute. Did NOT know they are immune to scorpion and snake venom 😮 But i always found it cool that they have such an organized troop; guards, babysitters...
Yeah! an adaptation for the foods they eat (scorpions and snakes). They are related to mongoose which if you remember in Rikki Tikki tavi he protected his family from a cobra, got bit and lived. Ahh that cartoon really touched my heart strings.
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Meerkats are tough little critters. Don't let that cuteness fool you!
Yeah... imagine them 100lbs, digging into you and biting and tossing you around, biting your arms and tail off... well legs at least.
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The way he ate that scorpion, it almost looked delicious. heh
I suppose that is delicious to a meerkat. It's one of their staple foods.
The return of cheetah best friends...Small but smart creatures RIP scorpion. Be careful Dolph looks like they enjoy eating everything :-)
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Good thing the meerkat doesn't let itself get distracted by all the humans.
Yeah! totally relaxed. They are rescues from farms nearby, ones found alone and babies so they grew up knowing people. Cant be released because not enough of them to live alone. They have only (2) rescue meerkats. They are very cute. Volunteers simply pick them up when its time to go.
Hi; meerkats are not weasels. They're more closely related to viverrids (genets, civets, etc) which are essentially the convergent evolution branch in the Feliform clade compared to mustelids (weasels), which are in the caniform clade. This actually means that meerkats and mongooses are related to hyenas, too!
That's right. I noticed I mentioned in there they were weasels, but more of a mongoose which I mention but anyway... weasel-like I suppose.
Cool animals!
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That's cool ur that close to a meerkat... they can be friendly... Scorpions are not..😅😅
Yeah! These two meerkats are rescues and raised from little kits, so very used to humans. When its time to go, the volunteers just pick them up and place in cat carriers back to their enclosures.
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you mean they don't live with a boar/warthog as best buddies in the wild? :P jk, and a great video as usual.
Yeah I know. They ended up with humans instead :)
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I've seen videos of meerkats standing and crawling on a sleeping warthog. They had some sort of beneficial relationship.
@@NannupTiger I wish I could do that with wild mongooses. They have warthog spas where they pick off parasites. Lay down and let them pick them off me. If I had any.
@@CheetahWhisperer Me too. I'd love to be groomed by a mongoose or a baboon 😆 I don't have many parasites either and I think they'd soon give up. There is a place (or 2) in SE Asia, where you can go and have fish nibble the dead skin cells off your feet!
Dolph getting ready to have a meerkat rub its gland on his cheek 😅 I don't think Gabriel would lick your face after that..
That would be so gross... I've had meerkats mark my shoes and even after scrubbing them you still smell it for days. It's totally opposite of nice. I bring Gabe scent enrichment things for his benefit when I'm not encountering him myself. He loves it and I try and clean myself up before an encounter because I don't want him distracted but happy to see me. Thx for watching and commenting and knowing Gabriel!
@@CheetahWhisperer That little butt could really pucker up, haha. It sorta looked like a pair of lips 💋. Everything about wildlife is awesome to me 😊
Pablo says, waste not, want not! Lol. As much as I love all animals, always enjoy and respect wild animals AT A DISTANCE! Unless you are educated, knowledgeable, and experienced, stay safe and live vicariously through Dolph!
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These videos are entertaining and adorable, I enjoy this content.
So glad you enjoyed it!
Hi Dolph, this is another fabulous video! Thanks for sharing with us! Normally my favourites are your cheetah videos, but you made me interested in meerkats too..🙂 I´m also very grateful, that you wrote me an answer to my email concerning my travel to South Africa (perhaps you can remember). I´m always waiting for new videos from your chanel!😆😁
Thx for watching! You'll see me mix it up occasionally. I have other interests and when they are on the project and have something to do with South Africa and a cheetah may come across, I may post it. Love bugs and other predators.
Meer cats are like African prairie dogs
Yeah... lots of weasels and ground squirrels there as well. All seem to blend in and similar. Read where the ground squirrel and the meerkat can even coexist in the same BURROWS! amazing.
Wow Dolph you look different without your Cheetah protector growing on your face:) At least you don't have to worry about your skin being licked off with Meerkats. Instead you have to not let them get far enough up your pants leg to reach anything important😂!
Yup. This was actually an earlier clip before I grew the beard and didn't know how damaging cheetah grooming was. But the meerkat eating the scorpion was new.
I just found out kiki passed away in march never knew she needed care and that she died poor girl rest in peace kiki🕊🕊
Lives of cheetahs is so fleeting. Kiki was not my cheetah so I have no permission to post about her on YT except in comments like this. She was also very special. House raised and very trustworthy even when annoying her. Raised cubs even.
@@CheetahWhisperer yeah she was verry special not only for her leg disabilety but also for her personality she will be missed
Merkats are aliens!
And the scorpions they eat!
MEERCAT DONT PLAY!
Nope... pretty brave for their size. I found another scorpion of the same species months earlier and would not even touch it... to afraid. I'll try next time. Let it crawl on my hand. It won't sting as long as you don't restrain it.
I was enjoying this video until the freeze frame on the meerkat's butthole. Imagine you're a scorpion and that's the last thing you ever see. You'd be begging for death.
they are no mere cats eh? semi-wild creatures that live near or even within human civilization (hedgehogs, foxes, many avians, specialised insects* etc.) are not exactly domesticated but clearly are clever enough to use humans and infrastructure we build to their own ends. i reckon it takes something like what there little fellas have - pretty sharp mind and a lot of curiosity. *example being that bakeries at least large scale ones have an ongoing war with some of the most stubborn seemingly specialised bugs, drowsing the whole place in ridiculously potent chemicals merely kills the current generation and dose not seem to do much more.
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