The Courier has teamed up with Blair Drummond Safari Park to supply readers the prospect to win a household go for 2 adults and two kids every week - and study a bit extra about their residents on the identical time.
Have you ever met the most recent additions to the park but?
In the beginning of April, the park welcomed two new meerkats into its mob. Biggie and Cardi B are named after rapper royalty, so the keepers are hoping they may make stunning music collectively.
Meerkats are extremely territorial, so introducing new meerkats to a household group might be difficult. In the interim, Biggie and Cardi B have their very own wing of Meerkat Mansions and can slowly be built-in into the established mob over time.
Meerkats are extremely cooperative animals inside their teams and work collectively on nearly every thing they do. One of the vital essential jobs for any meerkat is performing as sentry; that is after they hold a lookout for any hazard.
Meerkats take it in turns to be the sentry and can change over this function about as soon as each 1-2 hours.
Sentry meerkats have completely different requires various kinds of predators. The sound they make to alert everybody of an aerial predator (like a chook of prey), is completely different from the sound they make for a terrestrial predator (like a snake).
It's because the meerkats have to take completely different actions for various predators.
In addition they have a name generally known as a rallying cry. After they make this name everybody within the group will band collectively and attempt to cope with the risk as one.
Meerkats are literally very environment friendly little hunters and might work collectively to take down small rodents and lizards.
When out foraging, meerkats are additionally very cautious to all the time hold everybody close by or sound distance. They are going to always vocalise to be able to keep involved with the others. This high-level of cooperation is a part of the explanation why meerkats are so profitable within the wild.
You possibly can meet the safari park’s new meerkats now of their Meerkat Mansion or, in case you’d like a personal VIP expertise, guide one of many park’s up-close meerkat experiences?
Blair Drummond Safari Park is open seven days every week, from 10am till 5.30pm. Tickets might be booked on-line at blairdrummond.com.
For an opportunity to win a household go, which can be utilized any in the future throughout the park’s opening season this yr, simply reply the next query: What's the identify of the meerkat who's on lookout obligation?
Ship the coupon along with your reply, identify, handle and call quantity to: Safari Park Competitors, West Lothian Courier, One Central Quay, Glasgow, G3 9DA. The deadline is Wednesday at 4pm. Solely unique vouchers shall be accepted, no photocopies.
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