Meerkat Manor
by Tim Clutton-Brock
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Author: Tim Clutton-BrockEdition: Hardcover
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2007-10-04
ISBN: 0297844849
Number of pages: 240
Publisher: Weidenfeld & Nicolson
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Book Review: Fascinating Companion to Meerkat Manor
Summary: 5 Stars
Meerkat Manor is a television series on Animal Planet which is currently in its third season. The author started the Kalahari Meerkat project and is an adviser to the TV show. The book covers the life of Flower, one of the "stars" of the show. It also details how the project started, the focus of the research, what they've learned, and what life is like for the researchers. He also includes a list of scientific publications, a timeline for Flower's life, and a list of her pups and what happened to them.
Of course, the major focus of the book is on the meerkats themselves. The book does an excellent job of outlining the lives of meerkats, and often compares and contrasts meerkats to other animals. There are a lot of fascinating details that have never been mentioned in the show, such as how Zaphod came to join the Whiskers (when I read it, I literally put the book down and said, "Wow, really?!").
The book is fairly large and of high-quality construction. It feels similar to a good coffee table book. The book includes hundreds of beautiful pictures, including many full-page and two-page spreads.
All-in-all, it's an excellent read for anyone who has an interest in nature.
Summary of Meerkat Manor
Meerkat Manor, a television series now in its 3rd year (with 2 more seasons contracted) following the fortunes of a group of Meerkats has recently attracted sensational viewing figures. So much so that the BBC Natural History Unit that created Blue Planet and Planet Earth is producing a full-length feature film based on the hugely successful precedent of The March of the Penguins, backed by Harvey Weinstein's Weinstein Company. The series follows a group of named individuals and the viewer becomes closely involved in the life-or-death struggles, just like a soap opera, of this curiously attractive and anthropomorphic tribe. To tie in with the success of the television series and the publicity which will accrue from worldwide release of the film the originator of the Meerkat research project, Tim Clutton-Brock, has written an engaging and informative book about these animals and what his research tells us about their world, a world which appears to mirror our own but is in fact driven by the sometimes savage instincts of self-interest and survival.Wildlife Books
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