I met a meerkat who was quite a character when I was in Namibia in 2007. He was injured a couple of years ago when a tourist went and kicked him for some unknown reason. The guide on my trip took him to the community lodge at Brandberg where I stayed for the night. They nursed him, called him Carlos and he decided to stay. He goes out roaming during the day to feed, apparently he really likes those large black millipedes. In the evenings he returns to the lodge and is fussed over by the visitors. He was curled up on one old dears lap and made some really distressed noises and grunts when she attempted to stand up to go into dinner - he just wanted more attention. In the morning he posed wonderfully stood on his hindlegs in the early sunlight.
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