Mateyush: The narration stated Flower was a dominant for 4 years. What is the typical reign of a dominant female?
Mick Kaczorowski: Well, basically a dominant female can last as long as her group does and as long as some kind of tragedy doesn't happen. A dominant female can last 6, 7, 8 years, something like that.

amays: What are the function of the collars?
Mick Kaczorowski: The collars are a radio collar and are used by the researchers to track the meerkats if they can't find them. One of the processes of the day is that everybody gets to the burrow where the meerkats sleep at around 6 a.m. So the researchers, film crew and everybody are waiting at a particular burrow for the meerkats to get out of the burrows, rise and sun themselves and warm themselves. But if the meerkats didn't return to their burrow at night, that's when the researchers use the radio collars to see where they've gone.

diesel75: How is medical intervention determined?
Mick Kaczorowski: There's no medical intervention with the animals in Meerkat Manor. Because they are wild animals, basically, the scientists don't believe that they should intercede because they don't want to have an effect on the gene pool by saving a weaker meerkat. Or affecting the outcome of what's natural in the Kalahari.

meerkathuggr: What's the timeframe between shooting and putting it on air?
Mick Kaczorowski: Well, for Season 3, we started filming in November and completed filming around April. And the American audience is the first audience seeing Meerkat Manor Season 3.

Everbound_Ve: Do you think that the Whiskers will accept Axel now that Flower is gone?
Mick Kaczorowski: I can't really answer that question. You'll have to watch the episodes and see how it turns out.

Coz: Did the pack kill the snake?
Mick Kaczorowski: No.

asdf: Would Flower have survived if the tracker wasn't around her neck?
Mick Kaczorowski: No.

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