{"id":2373,"date":"2015-10-21T04:09:22","date_gmt":"2015-10-21T08:09:22","guid":{"rendered":"\/?p=2373"},"modified":"2015-10-21T04:09:22","modified_gmt":"2015-10-21T08:09:22","slug":"suricate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"\/2015\/10\/21\/suricate\/","title":{"rendered":"Meerkats"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Meerkats or suricates are mammals in the mongoose family.<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\n<div id=\"attachment_2371\" style=\"width: 1210px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Meerkats-Szeged01.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2371\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Meerkats-Szeged01.jpg\" alt=\"Meerkats\" width=\"1200\" height=\"630\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2371\" srcset=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Meerkats-Szeged01.jpg 1200w, \/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Meerkats-Szeged01-300x158.jpg 300w, \/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Meerkats-Szeged01-1024x538.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-2371\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Meerkats (<em>Suricata suricatta<\/em>), <a href=\"\/places\/hungary\/szeged\/szeged-zoo\/\" title=\"Szeged Zoo\">Szeged Zoo<\/a>.<br \/>These suricates were outside in spite of the September weather and seemed to have been enjoying themselves.<\/p><\/div><\/p>\n<p>Meerkats are gregarious creatures that live in large groups and form a somewhat complex social structure. Humans like to judge other animals by their cuteness &#8212; especially by their cuteness on superficial observation &#8212; thus meerkets are high on the likable scale even though they do not socialize well with humans.<\/p>\n<p>There are even reality show style <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Meerkat_Manor\" title=\"Meerkat Manor\" target=\"_blank\">TV programs depicting the politics of meerkat families <\/a>which is a bit bizarre.<\/p>\n<p><div id=\"attachment_2370\" style=\"width: 810px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Meerkats01.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2370\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Meerkats01.jpg\" alt=\"Meerkats.\" width=\"800\" height=\"500\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2370\" srcset=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Meerkats01.jpg 800w, \/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Meerkats01-300x188.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-2370\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Meerkats in the <a href=\"\/places\/canada\/ontario\/toronto\/toronto-zoo\/\" title=\"Toronto Zoo\">Toronto Zoo<\/a>.<br \/>Even though meerkats look cute and cuddly they are vicious little critters and don&#8217;t make very good house pets.<\/p><\/div><br \/>\n<h4 class=\"further-readings-title\">Further Readings:<\/h4>\n<div class=\"further-readings\">\n<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Meerkat\" title=\"Meerkat\">Meerkat<\/a> on Wikipedia.<br \/>\n\n<\/div>\n<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Meerkats or suricates are mammals in the mongoose family.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2371,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[16],"tags":[65,40,39],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/teleonomix.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2373"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/teleonomix.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/teleonomix.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teleonomix.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teleonomix.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2373"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/teleonomix.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2373\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teleonomix.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2371"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/teleonomix.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2373"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teleonomix.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2373"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teleonomix.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2373"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}