List of Meerkat Manor meerkats
The meerkat families and individuals are listed in order of appearance with the official names and spellings from the original broadcast of the programme used for their primary identification.
The group came into existence in 1998, with four Young Ones females and two Lazuli rovers – reinforced with a wild meerkat who had been released nearby (instead of the potjie) from Van Zylsrus.
The group split Yossarian and Super Furry Animal taking dominance in the splinter till Baddiel overthrew her sister.
With every move recorded on camera by Cambridge University, the Whiskers became famous as the stars of the hit television series, Meerkat Manor (2005).
[12] Flower also accepted Axel, an abandoned pup from the rival Zappa group, into the Whiskers clan, where the usual response would have been to kill the young intruder.
[13] Flower's four-year reign ended late in the third series when she died after being bitten in the head by a Cape cobra while protecting a litter of newborn pups that were her own.
"[14] As such, interfering in the natural processes would render the research results invalid; the purpose of the show is to truly present a realistic view into the meerkats lives including their deaths.
[16] Animal Planet aired a film biography of Flower's early life on 25 May 2008 entitled Meerkat Manor: The Story Begins.
The film, using footage of untamed meerkats and the research notes of Cambridge University, retells the story of how Flower became the dominant female of the Whiskers after the deaths of her mother and sister.
This time the babysitters joined him, but as they carried the newborn pups to a new burrow, they passed the main group and Flower and Zaphod ran after them.
[32] Tosca mated with roving male Carlos in the last episode of the first series, but he left her alone and made no motions to work on starting a new group with her.
[35] Pookie is one of Flower's sons and in the first episode of the series when the group went foraging, he, Kinkajou, and Rocket Dog stole Mitch, abandoned him, and looked for something more fun.
[12] In the middle of the third series, he tried to help Flower's two pups, Ren and Stumpy (Len and Squiggy in the US version), who were being neglected by the temporary Splinters group being led by Rocket Dog.
[34] Late in the series, Mitch found Axel, a pup abandoned during a failed raid attempt by the Zappa, and took him back to the Whiskers where – in an unexpected event within meerkat society – he was adopted into the family.
[34] She mated with a roving Zappa male in the middle of the third series,[34] but her pups died in a premature birth caused by the strain of her new-found leadership.
Inside, Simon found a puff adder, but the Whiskers' babysitters couldn't escape due to the Aztecs, they were viciously blocking the entrance.
[46] First introduced as "the biggest, meanest meerkat in the territory", Big Si was the dominant male of the Lazuli who regularly led the various war parties against the Whiskers.
In January 2009, Zorilla, Miles, Baker Karim and Cody were killed by TB, the group is led by Whiskers male Panthro and Commandos female Celidh.
Romeo Wilson), a son of Hannibal and Nikita, is a roving male who attempts to mate with females from various other Meerkat Manor groups throughout the third and fourth series.
[39] However, Wilson had a famous Romeo-Juliet relationship with babysitter, Sophie, and is the likely father of her first litter [1] Archived 2 January 2011 at the Wayback Machine.
[47] Led by dominant pair Lola and Frank, the Zappa have a quick fight with the Whiskers in the first episode of the third series, but are forced to flee from the much larger group.
[14] Frank, an older male, was a formidable leader who showed no fear of leading his much smaller group against the Whiskers massive mob.
[56] During the third series, Punk regularly led the Zappa into grab-and-go foraging runs into the Whiskers territory, but the smaller size of the group forced them to flee from direct confrontations.
[35] After the fourth series aired in the United States, the Friends of the Kalahari reported that Punk was killed by a martial eagle in August 2008.
[11] When Mozart returned in the third series, she competed with her sister Kinkajou, also evicted from the Whiskers, for leadership of a new group, the Starsky, which she had founded with roving male Carlos.
[33] Carlos' death left the Starsky females without a mate or a potential for new pups, and the remaining members of the group died.
[29][60] A rather amorous fellow who was billed as the Kalahari's "Casanova",[26][47] he impregnated at least four Whiskers females during the first series including Daisy, Mozart, Tosca, and Kinkajou.
Unable to depose her sister, Maybelline left the Whiskers with her pups and a couple of adults at the end of the third series to form a new group, the Aztecs.
[69] The Gattaca, named after the 1997 science fiction movie, was a minor group of approximately ten members that appeared briefly in the first series.
[60] Acting as minor rivals of the Whiskers, the Gattaca received little story attention until they quietly disappeared from the show before the end of the series.
