Dance with Elvis!
Near the sea lions, Adelaide Zoo houses a meerkat mob that consists of one male and three females.
Elvis is easily distinguishable from the girls, Priscilla, Ginger and Linda, as he is the smallest meerkat in the group.
Elvis Fun Facts:
- All the girls compete for his attention regularly.
- The girls tend to steal his food as he is the slowest eater of the lot!
MEERKAT FACTS:
The meerkat is a type of mongoose that inhabits dry regions of short grass and sparse woody scrub of Africa.
Meerkats live in large family groups. Each morning they emerge from their burrows to bask in the sun and groom each other. Meerkats need a bit of early morning sunbathing to get going. This is followed by a day spent foraging for insects. Throughout the day the mob works as a team to protect the family from predators, taking turns acting as sentries watching over the group and altering them of potential danger. Meerkats can climb whatever they can to get a good vantage point of approaching predators.
Meerkat mobs maintain visual and/or vocal contact at all times through soft grunts. All family members engage in play, grappling and wrestling with each other, which helps establish an individual’s position in the hierarchy peacefully.
Build your own Elvis!
- You will need scissors (with adult supervision) and double sided tape, however regular sticky tape will do.
- Cut along the solid blue lines, and fold along the dotted lines.
- Fold the semi-circular ears forward, while the rest of tab 3 is folded backward.
- Add a strip of double sided tape to the numbered tabs on the head and body, then fold, tuck and stick the tabs in numerical order.
- Insert the head into the neck hole of the body.
