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Nuovi arrivi al Bioparco, si tratta di tre individui di suricati, due femmine e un maschio. Le femmine provengono dallo zoo di Jihlava (Repubblica Ceca), mentre il maschio arriva dallo Zoo di Riga Mare Baltico. Il trio si è ambientato perfettamente all'interno della nuova area dedicata ai suricati che è attigua all'edificio del Rettilario del Bioparco. In questo nuovo exhibit gli animali hanno a disposizione un recinto esterno che riproduce l'ambiente arido del deserto e delle savane africane, da cui questa specie proviene, ed un'area interna riscaldata. I SURICATI del bioparco; I suricati sono strettamente imparentati con le manguste, sono onnivori ed abilissimi cacciatori, in gruppo riescono ad avere la meglio perfino sui serpenti velenosi e sugli scorpioni.Costruiscono complesse tane sotterranee dove vive la comunità. Tutti i membri del gruppo si alternano nei turni di guardia all'esterno delle tane, segnalando con un suono di allarme l'eventuale avvicinamento dei predatori.In genere solo la coppia dominante si riproduce. I cuccioli nascono con occhi e orecchie chiusi e rimangono nella tana per circa 4 settimane. Durante questo periodo uno o più membri del gruppo, i baby-sitter, si alternano per rimanere nella tana a sorvegliare i piccoli mentre gli altri si alimentano.I suricati sono diventati molto famosi con l'uscita del film "il re leone" della Disney, dove uno dei personaggi principali, Timon, è uno spiritoso suricato.Fonte Bioparco di Roma
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". A meerkat clan often contains about 20 meerkats, but some super-families have 50 or more members. Meerkats have an average life span of 12--14 years. "Meerkat" is a loanword from Afrikaans. The name has a Dutch origin but by misidentification. Dutch meerkat refers to the "guenon", a monkey of the Cercopithecus genus. The word "meerkat" is Dutch for "lake cat", but the suricata is not in the cat family, and neither suricatas nor guenons are attracted to lakes; the word possibly started as a Dutch adaptation of a derivative of Sanskrit markaţa मर्कट = "monkey", perhaps in Africa via an Indian sailor on board a Dutch East India Company ship. The traders of the Dutch East India Company were likely familiar with monkeys, but the Dutch settlers attached the name to the wrong animal at the Cape. The suricata is called stokstaartje = "little stick-tail" in Dutch.According to African popular belief (mainly in the Zambian/Zimbabwean region), the meerkat is also known as the sun angel, as it protects villages from the moon devil or the werewolf which is believed to attack stray cattle or lone tribesmen. The meerkat is a small diurnal herpestid (mongoose) weighing on average about 731 grams (1.61 lb) for males and 720 grams (1.6 lb) for females. Its long slender body and limbs give it a body length of 25 to 35 centimetres (9.8 to 14 in) and an added tail length of 17 to 25 centimetres (6.7 to 9.8 in). Its tail is not bushy like all other mongoose species, but is rather long and thin and tapers to a black or reddish colored pointed tip. The meerkat uses its tail to balance when standing upright .They also use it for signal. Its face tapers, coming to a point at the nose, which is brown. The eyes always have black patches around them and it has small black crescent-shaped ears that can close to exclude soil when digging. Like cats, meerkats have binocular vision, a large peripheral range, depth perception, and eyes on the front of their faces. At the end of each of a meerkat's "fingers" is a non-retractable, strong, 2 centimetres (0.79 in) long, curved claw used for digging burrows and digging for prey. Claws are also used with muscular hindlegs to help climb trees. They have four toes on each foot and long slender limbs. The coat is usually fawn-colored peppered with gray, tan, or brown with a silver tint. They have short parallel stripes across their backs, extending from the base of the tail to the shoulders. The patterns of stripes are unique to each meerkat. The underside of the meerkat has no markings, but the belly has a patch which is only sparsely covered with hair and shows the black skin underneath. The meerkat uses this area to absorb heat while standing on its rear legs, usually early in the morning after cold desert nights.

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