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The opening introduction gives each individual meerkat names like Flower, Mitch and Tosca. With each name is a quip that gives a personality to each meerkat like ‘rebellious’ or ‘honest’.
There is a bossy mother meerkat called Flower, and a father meerkat who stays very close to Flower’s side and is charged with protecting the family. The scriptwriters and editors might as well have been soap opera veterans because they know how to tell a story that will reel you in.
There is even a Desperate Housewives-like subplot about a lusty rival meerkat from another family called Carlos who romances all the females in the family. There is also Shakespeare, a meerkat who survives a snake bite, but crawls back to the den on the brink of death. His sister stays close by, while keeping an eye out for predators.
Like a soap opera, you have to tune in next week to find out Shakespeare’s fate, or who got Tosca, Flower’s daughter, pregnant and so on.
Add Bill Nighy’s voice to all this, and you know we can look forward to some really entertaining hours.
(From: Newspaper.Asia1.com)
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excellant programme and very addictive, I even watch the repeats..I get so involved with their lives and what has happened to Shakespeare???
I wish I knew that too :-)
This is my favourite programme ! They are ever so cute, little creatures, aren’t they?
Meerkat Manor is a great show, it’s really like a soap opera, I got so interested in this show that if I miss one show, I’m going to …….. well you guys are doing well, Its amazing to see that Shakespear actually lived trhu that Puffadder bite, he is by far my favourite meerkat of the lot, but with all the meerkats on the show in the Whiskers group, my reptiles got some names;Zaphod, Flower, Mitch, Mozart
Great work mates
Hi all again,
I wrote to Animal planet and I had this e-mail back from them this morning:
“Dear Jane,
Thank you for contacting Animal Planet.
We appreciate the time you took to write to us with your kind comments. We are pleased to learn that our efforts are appreciated.
You will be pleased to know that a second series of ‘Meerkat Manor’ is planned for 2006. The dates and times have still to be confirmed.
Kind Regards
Discovery Networks Europe Viewer Relations Team
E002860″
Hope this helps – I did ask about Tosca and Shakespeare but received no reply as to their whereabouts.
Take care Jane x
hi ppeeps
i justr phoned cambridge uni and asked how shakespear and tosca are they are both fine, yes shakespear survived for other info look up the phone no on the appropriate web site and give them a call
sweet, but lets wait and see, they might want us to think that he is ok so they can make us watch the next series :P you know people are like to get publicity these days!
Hi all
Just found this page it is about a lady that went to the Kalahari project, there a piccies of the “Whiskers mob” and even the lazuli (hiss, boo) :-) and I even have Flower eating a scorpion as my desktop now! Sad I know – but I am a Meerkat fan!
http://home.earthlink.net/~afoxtogo/meerkats/meerkat.html
J
sorry you feel like that joe but i spoke to one of the researchers from the project and was assured that shakey is ok and tosca is in and out of the group like a yo yo
steve
Steve, did you find out when the new series is going to be on mate? if so please tell me :)
early 2006 in uk
early in 2006 wicked. i would of thought it would be out at about this time next year