• Question: Have you ever studied Meerkat behavior?

    Asked by iloveyou2 to Edd on 23 Jun 2011.
    • Photo: Edward Codling

      Edward Codling answered on 23 Jun 2011:

      No – I haven’t studied them directly, but I met someone who was studying them. They have an interesting social structure that is played out in the way they groom each other. Those at the bottom groom everyone else – but nobody grooms them! 🙁
      Those right at the top get groomed by everybody below them but they don’t do any work themselves!

      It all sounds a bit unfair!

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