They kind of look like pigs with bunny or Kangaroo ears. So adorable 😍. I love both the Aardvark and the Meerkats! It would be awesome to see them in person. 💜✌
I was licked on the wrist by an aardvark piglet at " Randers Regnskov " [Randers rainforest] in Denmark. I put my right arm up to the bars of its cage, as I thought it might want to sniff Me. Amazingly the aardvark moved a little closer, and its long thin tongue came through the bars, as it licked the sweat from My wrist. Funny enough this little encounter gathered a small crowd. This is one of my animal encounters I'll never forget 😀
I know this was posted a year ago, I'm curious if it worked out though. Meerkats eat insects too, probably termites if they can get at them, and they also make underground burrows. It seems to me that this is a bad pairing idea - putting an animal that digs deep to locate termites and ants in with an animal that burrows = housing crisis and stress on the animals. Clearly the meerkats know what's up before anyone else does.
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When the top “couple” eventually died, the other meerkats below them didn’t know what to do, as none of them were “alphas” or had ever been in a “power position”. That’s what disbanded means. The mob mentality disintegrated, so they needed to be re-assimilated somehow into another social group elsewhere, because they’re such social animals. Like with wolf packs. If, for example, hunters kill an alpha male, the pack will gradually change ranks, where a lower ranking male might move up. Meerkats I guess don’t do it like that. Wolf packs involve more nuanced positions and rankings, but eventually, they run out of wolves. Then, one by one, they die from old age, sickness, accidents, hunters, fights, etc., and eventually you’re left with a single “lone wolf” who has no purpose. There are videos about this. A lone wolf (or meerkat in this case) is soon to be a dead animal because they have no defense, no resources to find food, and no importance to other, non-related groups. A lone wolf has to somehow attract a female and start a new pack from scratch. But he also has to fight off other packs and other males who see him alone and worthless, and one more mouth to feed that’s in their way. Social creatures often have no sense of direction or reason to continue alone.
@@danrussell9411they wouldn't keep them together if there was any danger of that happening. Aardvarks eat ants and other tiny insects, plus occasional fruit (in their natural environment, there is actually an underground fruit they dig up called an aardvark cucumber). They don't even have teeth, except for a few back molars. No way they could eat something the size and speed of a meerkat.
Please explain why you put 3 quite large animals in an already quite small enclosure which seems to be not quite big enough even for 2 quite small meerkats. Seems quite unfair... one so destructive too. where is the logic? Saying they are both African species and may live near each other in the wild does not make sense. Hyenas and meerkats live near each other in the wild, but putting them togther would be disastrous for the meerkats.
I agree with the overall premise of your comment. What I was thinking about whether all of this "storytelling" is just made up by the producers of the show and it doesn't represent what the zoo actually did and, more importantly, why. But I don't know the zoo at all so I don't know, maybe they are known for actually doing stupid things like what the video suggests for no reason. Anyway, I think your comparison to hyenas is just as dumb. Hyenas and Meerkats are predator and prey while Aardvarks definitely aren't. It was literally said in the video that their diet mostly consists of bugs.
The mob was "disbanded" because the dominant members died-So? The order of dominance inevitably changes so it concerns me to hear the words "disbanded" and "replaced". What exactly became of the previous mob?
This zoo makes me so nervous.. listening to her sound so unsure of how the two species would cohabitate.. as if they dont even know.. when the meerkat couple hid, that shouldve told them to put the Advarks in a different enclosure.. theyre surprised that the meerkats wont breed?? Uh duh.. feels like the people on this zoo just be experimenting on ehat wild animals theu can stick in the same habitate together. It's clear these two animals need two separate spaces.. why does this zoo notoriously put different species of animals together and 'hope' it works out???
It’s unusual for meerkats not to breed,I’ve seen people keep them as pets and they have to constantly rehome babies,if they don’t get them fixed. If I ever get a pair,ONE maybe TWO litters at most,then they’re getting fixed!
I agree. It’s like, so you want the meerkats to breed, why then do you add another larger species that you’ve admitted are destructive, nocturnal and likes to dig?! You don’t think that’ll throw off the mating behaviors? It’s not rocket science. Then, after the fact, they decide to construct a separate meerkat sleeping area. Why this wasn’t done before the aardvarks were brought-in, I have no idea. Also I’ve noticed, on some other videos of this zoo, some strange situations and scenarios involving other animals. Particularly surrounding breeding. There was one about sun bears I think, and they wanted them to breed… it’s well known that most bears are solitary, all year long, minus the mating season. Most male bears are a real danger to cubs, as well as females. They’ll kill either one for competition over resources. Yet on this one episode, the keepers were freaking out and hoping the bears would mate, despite them clearly not getting along and the zoo was essentially ‘forcing’ them to get along. This sort of ‘Russian Roulette’ breeding, with an already critically endangered species, is a little.. questionable I think. Lol. Either one of the bears could become so stressed out that they end up sick or even dying from stress-induced illness. The stress of sharing close quarters when a female animal is not in-heat/receptive to a male can lower their immunity, and that’s just the tip of the iceberg…Or, if the female is irritated enough, she could end up fighting him to the death. And who knows which one is going to win. Then you’re back at square one. But worse. Now you’ve got a dead endangered animal that showed clear signs of being stressed, and yet the humans involved were so adamant that they must reproduce, those stress indicators were shrugged off…
@@erikm8372I wouldn't rely too much on the way the zoo's thought process is relayed back to us by what is essentially a reality TV show (Edit: Just to be clear - it is evident that there are a lot of terrible zoos out there and it's more than possible that's actually the way things went - I'm just saying I don't trust a TV show that relies on a script written by the production company when telling their stories)
@@Dramn_I suppose Martha is referring to the fact that animals don't have names for each other. But she's ignoring the fact that animals can distinguish between others very precisely by using their senses in way we as humans can't comprehend. So while they don't have names, they are seen as separate individuals from their peers and us using names somewhat just reflects that.
No they're not. Plenty of zoos house their animals in excellent conditions. Additionally they preserve many species which are either critically endangered or extinct in the wild.
Their wobbly noses 😂 lol
7:15 "I don't want to put the cat amongst the pigeons", but you do want to put the aardvark amongst the meercats, huh? :)
I played this on my big screen TV, and my dog started INSISTING that the meerkats were "funny looking squirrels".
I need an hour long show of these cuties on a daily basis please.
They kind of look like pigs with bunny or Kangaroo ears. So adorable 😍. I love both the Aardvark and the Meerkats!
It would be awesome to see them in person. 💜✌
Aardvark is Dutch for earth pig. Their closest relatives are elephants, and they are so adorable.
Meerkats: who are these jokers and why are they ruining our yard with their filthy claws?!
Meerkats look so sensible 😊😊 ...and cute ❤🎉
I was licked on the wrist by an aardvark piglet at " Randers Regnskov " [Randers rainforest] in Denmark.
I put my right arm up to the bars of its cage, as I thought it might want to sniff Me.
Amazingly the aardvark moved a little closer, and its long thin tongue came through the bars, as it licked the sweat from My wrist.
Funny enough this little encounter gathered a small crowd.
This is one of my animal encounters I'll never forget 😀
Love those meerkats ♥️
Oh yes! 😊
I'm quite fond of meerkats
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That place is way too small. But. Such cute animals..
I’m not sure a lot of thought went into the decision to put these two species together.
Wish that enclosure was bigger.
You talking about the Meerkats that's there before
@@jennifer294it would probably make the unification more easily if they more space
Very nice 😊
Very adorable ❤❤❤❤
Wow this is the science of breeding.
I know this was posted a year ago, I'm curious if it worked out though. Meerkats eat insects too, probably termites if they can get at them, and they also make underground burrows. It seems to me that this is a bad pairing idea - putting an animal that digs deep to locate termites and ants in with an animal that burrows = housing crisis and stress on the animals. Clearly the meerkats know what's up before anyone else does.
"Tatsu" and "Oni"??? Oh, my...
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why that mix ?
This would happen in the wild , meerkat's are spoiled
looks small space, even before having to share
Disbanded? So what happened to all the old meerkats?
Meerkat stew
They got sent to a bunch of different views, where they would live in groups to either breed or just all live in a group to live together happily
When the top “couple” eventually died, the other meerkats below them didn’t know what to do, as none of them were “alphas” or had ever been in a “power position”. That’s what disbanded means. The mob mentality disintegrated, so they needed to be re-assimilated somehow into another social group elsewhere, because they’re such social animals.
Like with wolf packs. If, for example, hunters kill an alpha male, the pack will gradually change ranks, where a lower ranking male might move up. Meerkats I guess don’t do it like that. Wolf packs involve more nuanced positions and rankings, but eventually, they run out of wolves. Then, one by one, they die from old age, sickness, accidents, hunters, fights, etc., and eventually you’re left with a single “lone wolf” who has no purpose. There are videos about this. A lone wolf (or meerkat in this case) is soon to be a dead animal because they have no defense, no resources to find food, and no importance to other, non-related groups. A lone wolf has to somehow attract a female and start a new pack from scratch. But he also has to fight off other packs and other males who see him alone and worthless, and one more mouth to feed that’s in their way. Social creatures often have no sense of direction or reason to continue alone.
Hope the aardvarks don't eat the Meerkats.
@@danrussell9411they wouldn't keep them together if there was any danger of that happening. Aardvarks eat ants and other tiny insects, plus occasional fruit (in their natural environment, there is actually an underground fruit they dig up called an aardvark cucumber). They don't even have teeth, except for a few back molars. No way they could eat something the size and speed of a meerkat.
Please explain why you put 3 quite large animals in an already quite small enclosure which seems to be not quite big enough even for 2 quite small meerkats. Seems quite unfair... one so destructive too. where is the logic? Saying they are both African species and may live near each other in the wild does not make sense. Hyenas and meerkats live near each other in the wild, but putting them togther would be disastrous for the meerkats.
I agree with the overall premise of your comment. What I was thinking about whether all of this "storytelling" is just made up by the producers of the show and it doesn't represent what the zoo actually did and, more importantly, why. But I don't know the zoo at all so I don't know, maybe they are known for actually doing stupid things like what the video suggests for no reason. Anyway, I think your comparison to hyenas is just as dumb. Hyenas and Meerkats are predator and prey while Aardvarks definitely aren't. It was literally said in the video that their diet mostly consists of bugs.
Did she say things 😮
The mob was "disbanded" because the dominant members died-So? The order of dominance inevitably changes so it concerns me to hear the words "disbanded" and "replaced". What exactly became of the previous mob?
Odd looking animal
This zoo makes me so nervous.. listening to her sound so unsure of how the two species would cohabitate.. as if they dont even know.. when the meerkat couple hid, that shouldve told them to put the Advarks in a different enclosure.. theyre surprised that the meerkats wont breed?? Uh duh.. feels like the people on this zoo just be experimenting on ehat wild animals theu can stick in the same habitate together. It's clear these two animals need two separate spaces.. why does this zoo notoriously put different species of animals together and 'hope' it works out???
It’s unusual for meerkats not to breed,I’ve seen people keep them as pets and they have to constantly rehome babies,if they don’t get them fixed. If I ever get a pair,ONE maybe TWO litters at most,then they’re getting fixed!
They do live in the same area in nature so it’s not bizarre. However they don’t live together.
I agree. It’s like, so you want the meerkats to breed, why then do you add another larger species that you’ve admitted are destructive, nocturnal and likes to dig?! You don’t think that’ll throw off the mating behaviors? It’s not rocket science. Then, after the fact, they decide to construct a separate meerkat sleeping area. Why this wasn’t done before the aardvarks were brought-in, I have no idea.
Also I’ve noticed, on some other videos of this zoo, some strange situations and scenarios involving other animals. Particularly surrounding breeding. There was one about sun bears I think, and they wanted them to breed… it’s well known that most bears are solitary, all year long, minus the mating season. Most male bears are a real danger to cubs, as well as females. They’ll kill either one for competition over resources. Yet on this one episode, the keepers were freaking out and hoping the bears would mate, despite them clearly not getting along and the zoo was essentially ‘forcing’ them to get along. This sort of ‘Russian Roulette’ breeding, with an already critically endangered species, is a little.. questionable I think. Lol. Either one of the bears could become so stressed out that they end up sick or even dying from stress-induced illness. The stress of sharing close quarters when a female animal is not in-heat/receptive to a male can lower their immunity, and that’s just the tip of the iceberg…Or, if the female is irritated enough, she could end up fighting him to the death. And who knows which one is going to win. Then you’re back at square one. But worse. Now you’ve got a dead endangered animal that showed clear signs of being stressed, and yet the humans involved were so adamant that they must reproduce, those stress indicators were shrugged off…
@@erikm8372I wouldn't rely too much on the way the zoo's thought process is relayed back to us by what is essentially a reality TV show (Edit: Just to be clear - it is evident that there are a lot of terrible zoos out there and it's more than possible that's actually the way things went - I'm just saying I don't trust a TV show that relies on a script written by the production company when telling their stories)
So why you still got a dog?
^5
The aardvark looks nothing like Arthur 😩
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why keep such animals enclosed
this makes no fucking sense
how do you feed an animal that eats so many ants ?
i refuse to watch animal video given human names! it make no sense. spare me the native feedback
What’s the native feedback?
So wtf do you want them to be called? Buster? Killer? Geggagahuia?
@@Dramn_I suppose Martha is referring to the fact that animals don't have names for each other. But she's ignoring the fact that animals can distinguish between others very precisely by using their senses in way we as humans can't comprehend. So while they don't have names, they are seen as separate individuals from their peers and us using names somewhat just reflects that.
Zoos = animal prison :(
No they're not. Plenty of zoos house their animals in excellent conditions. Additionally they preserve many species which are either critically endangered or extinct in the wild.
it must be awful not having to worry about what's next on the food chain 🙄
These poor meerkats are living in fear lady 😤 Go be a waitress somewhere. You have no business working with animals.