MeerKat

Sandy,
Great image of an animal that everyone believes is easy to find and photograph, the TV programme is filmed with an almost totally tame group, so hardly wildlife.
I have only seen these twice and not managed any good images, well done for not only seeing this but capturing a really fine image

Forgive my pickyness, but I prefer to use the English name (where available),it is of course a Meerkat, which is really a Suricate a member of the Mongoose family.

Hi Sandy,

That's a real solid capture of a Meerkat - great head-turn, good view of all the critical parts of the animal (along with nice catch-lights!), and solid framing and compositional choices. Well done. It's a shame that the lighting wasn't a bit more appealing, but that's obviously completely outside your control...

My understanding of the naming of the animal is that Ken is probably right about them being a little more properly called surricates, but the more commonly used and understood (and "unofficially" recognized) name is certainly meerkat. Unlike birds, there's no universally accepted standard for common names of mammals (or reptiles or amphibians, etc.) and many synonyms exist for even relatively common mammals (e.g., cougar, puma, panther, mountain lion, and even - to some - catamount, all refer to the same species).

Cheers...

Brad

I continue to be impressed with the number of species you were able to record!