Meerkat (disambiguation)
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A meerkat
is a small mammal and a member of the mongoose family.
Meerkat may also refer to:
Meerkat
The meerkat or suricate, Suricata suricatta, is a small mammal belonging to the mongoose family. 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"...
is a small mammal and a member of the mongoose family.
Meerkat may also refer to:
- Meerkat ManorMeerkat ManorMeerkat Manor is a British television programme produced by Oxford Scientific Films for Animal Planet International that premiered in September 2005 and ran for four series until its cancellation in August 2008...
, a British television programme - Meerkat (vehicle)Meerkat (vehicle)The Meerkat is the lead vehicle in the Interim Vehicle Mounted Mine Detector IVMMD system , which evolved from a system known as Chubby.The system is manufactured by the Rolling Stock Division of DCD-Dorbyl, a mechanical engineering conglomerate in South Africa.The Meerkat resembles a cross...
, a mine detection vehicle - MeerKATMeerKATMeerKAT is a radio telescope under construction in the Northern Cape of South Africa. It will be the largest and most sensitive radio telescope in the southern hemisphere until the Square Kilometer Array is completed around 2024.The telescope will be used for research into cosmic magnetism,...
, South African radio telescope, a prototype for the Square Kilometre Array
See also
- Maverick Meerkat, the Ubuntu 10.10 computer operating system release
- Merkit people, a Turkic or Mongol tribe that inhabited southeastern Siberia during the Middle Ages
- Aleksandr Orlov (meerkat)Aleksandr Orlov (meerkat)Aleksandr Orlov is a fictional CGI anthropomorphic Russian meerkat. He is portrayed as being of aristocratic stock, and the founder of www.comparethemeerkat.com. The character is central to an advertising campaign on British commercial television for comparethemarket.com, a price comparison website...
, meerkat appearing in BGL Group advertising