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MEERKATS           Read the text. Use the words from the box below to write in the missing words.                   Meerkats live in  Africa in the Kalahari . They are very cute .They are brown with grey  and black ears. They are  small - about the same  as a rabbit.  they are adults at about one year of age they weigh around 2 pounds (750 - 820 grams). They've got a long body and a long ,  short legs. They can stand  two legs. They live in . There are  five and thirty meerkats in  group. They  very social animals and they  to play with one another.  Meerkats constantly communicate with one another in three different : scent, sound, and body language. They sleep in holes in the . These holes are called burrows which consist of entrance holes, tunnels, and sleeping chambers. There may be up to 70 different entrances to the burrow system. Meerkats   early in the morning as the first rays of the sun stretch across  Kalahari. They  their holes and look  food. They eat insects, plants, , eggs and mice. They  even eat  animals  scorpions and spiders.  When meerkats eat, some  them stand on two legs and guard the others. That's  some other animals like  eat meerkats. When the  see an eagle, a snake  a fox they bark and   the meerkats run  to their holes.               or      but    because     southern      when   a      tail      stripes      can      lizards   all        between       desert       of        the       ways       for     on    are     animals          leave wake up     back    size     to     groups      ground     guards     like (2x)     poisonous     quite         Find the appropriate words from the text:   grown ups = another name for holes = long, animal with no legs = opposite of exit(s) = You use it when you communicate with someone without words. A small animal with eight legs. It uses a web to catch insects. Flowers, grasses and trees are all .       The End