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Meerkats eat mostly bugs and insects like scorpion, Spiders, millipedes, centipedes, and other protein/meat sourced foods such as lizards, snakes, eggs, small mammals, and sometimes small birds. They also eat plants and fruit.

Meerkats find food in groups to guard each other while getting eggs and insects out of trees.

Baby Meerkats do not start to hunt until till they are one month old.

A full grown meerkat will eat up to thirty items of food a day because the loose about a 5% of their weight when they sleep and because they are almost always moving.

Also meerkats eat eachothers poo.

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In zoos, Meerkats are typically fed a diet that consists of insects, eggs, fruits, vegetables, and occasionally small rodents. They have a varied diet to ensure they receive all the necessary nutrients for their health and well-being. Zookeepers may also provide vitamin and mineral supplements to meet their dietary needs.

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Meerkats usually eat insects, but will also eat other small animals such as lizards and snakes. They will also eat eggs and rarely birds.

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The amount of food a meerkat eats depends on the amount of food available, and the amount of food needed. The meerkat does not store body fat, therefor the hunt for food is a daily task.

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Yes, meerkats do eat spiders. They are insectivores so they eat different kinds of insects, arachnids, worms, and other similar organisms.

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They eat crickets, watermelon and cat-food plus lots more.

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Thier insect diet is worms, scorpians spiders, pupae, caterpillars, moths, buterflies, larvae, flies, termites, beetles, crickets.

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yes Meerkats do eat fruit and meat

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