Diet -
Meerkats are insectivores, which means most of their diet is made up of insects. However, they won't turn down a meal of small mammals, snakes and snake eggs, birds and bird eggs, grubs and even poisonous scorpions.
They are considered carnivores, meerkats eat more than just meat. Their diet also includes lizards, bugs and fruit. As mentioned, they like to treat themselves to scorpions.
Adult meerkats have some immunity to the venom, so scorpion stingers are no problem. However, instead of allowing pups to learn by trial and error and risk receiving a potentially life-threatening sting, mothers will cut the tail off of a scorpion before feeding the arachnid to her young.
They are considered carnivores, meerkats eat more than just meat. Their diet also includes lizards, bugs and fruit. As mentioned, they like to treat themselves to scorpions.
Adult meerkats have some immunity to the venom, so scorpion stingers are no problem. However, instead of allowing pups to learn by trial and error and risk receiving a potentially life-threatening sting, mothers will cut the tail off of a scorpion before feeding the arachnid to her young.