Question: what do meerkats eat and why that

Ines Goncalves answered on 5 Mar 2017:

Meerkats live in very arid conditions where food is hard to find. They spend most of their awake time foraging and they will sink their teeth into pretty much anything they can find: mostly insects like termites, ants and grubs, but also scorpions and spiders, lizards, mice and the odd plant bulb.