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Meerkat
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MEERKAT

Meerkat mothers can have up to three litters per year. The average litter size is two to five pups, which are born in grass-lined nursery chambers within the extensive meerkat warren system. They are born hairless and blind but all members of the troop cooperate to raise them and they grow very quickly.

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