Kalahari: Little Creatures
I have finally posted another installment of the Kalahari Series on the Notes from Africa photoblog. This one is Kalahari: Little Creatures.
So now it is the turn of some of the smaller mammals. Although they’re often overlooked in the search for the bigger animals, they’re not only there, they’re abundant. The Kalahari has everything from Meerkats or Suricates (Suricata suricata), Cape Ground Squirrels (Xerus inauris), two different species of mongoose (the Yellow and the Slender Mongoose), Aardvark, Porcupine, Pangolin, Springhare (Pedetes capensis) through to several species of rats and mice.
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What a lovely post – amazing how nature adapts to the weather and conditions; the little ground squirrels are so cute.
Meerkats are quite common in adverts over here in the UK – how weird is that? And our local neighbourhood watch posters include meerkats!
Hope you’re feeling better?
Sunshine xx
The Kalahari is one huge display of adaptation.
Meerkats in adverts: That is weird! I wonder if one guy from one ad agency came to South Africa, saw the meerkats, and thought they would be cute to use? Or maybe it is a South African ad person living there. What do the British people make of the meerkats, I wonder?
Can you remember what ads the meerkats were in?
Am feeling much better thanks! Eating like a normal person again. Haven’t indulged in a hamburger yet though.
Glad you’re feeling better. The meerkats are in an ad for comparethemarket.com travel insurance. The advice they give is not to go to comparethemeerkat.com but rather to go to their site for cheap travel insurance. The host is a meerkat with a Russian accent … go figure! Makes me shake my head.
Sunshine xx
That doesn’t make a whole lot of sense . . . Here they used a meerkat (well, I think it’s one – they took a bit of “artistic license” in their drawings of him!) as the character in a Vodacom (cellphone company) ad campaign. And an online Amazon-like store called Kalahari.net used to use one in their logo.