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Grant M. Mc Ilrath A.K.A The Meerkat Man

Did you ever get bothered by a fly that just won't leave you alone?! Watch this meerkat / suricate and fly dance...

A meerkat / suricate gives a response to a persistent fly buzzing around their head! Watch Shongololo from the Wild and Free Ungulungu meerkat / suricate group of The Meerkat Magic Conservation Project in The Meerkat Magic Valley Reserve.

BEWARE OF COPY-KATS…

Grant M. Mc Ilrath is known as The Meerkat Man and is the original not a copy-kat. Since 1993 and ongoing The Meerkat Man (a name given to him by the numerous international film crews he has worked with over decades) has been researching Wild and Free meerkat / meerkats / suricate / suricates as a professionally qualified Nature Conservationist in South Africa. Grant M. Mc Ilrath - A.K.A - The Meerkat Man has over twenty years and thousands of hours observation experience with two of the three recognised meerkat / meerkats / suricate / suricates subspecies and has numerous internationally published scientific papers and articles, radio interviews and films including ones with the BBC, National Geographic and Discovery Channel which have been aired around the world and watched by millions.

Beware of imitations...there are various non-professionals in tourism claiming to be the meerkat man or researchers to lure unsuspecting tourists into their visits even when the information they provide is not from their own professional research or their own accepted internationally published work. This can be compared to a non-professional claiming to be a doctor / lawyer etc., even though they are not qualified to do so. The qualification facts can speak for themselves.

The following is a partial list of Grant M. Mc Ilrath - A.K.A - The Meerkat Man's internationally published scientific work For testimonials from Cambridge and others press here.

1. Title: A genetic analysis of breeding success in the cooperative meerkat (Suricata suricatta) Published in: BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY

2. Title: Breeding success in cooperative meerkats: effects of helper number and maternal state Published in: BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY

3. Title: Offspring food allocation by parents and helpers in a cooperative mammal Published in BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY

4. Title: Reproductive suppression and inbreeding avoidance in wild populations of co operatively breeding meerkats (Suricata suricatta) Published in: BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY AND SOCIOBIOLOGY

5. Title: Evolution and development of sex differences in cooperative behavior in meerkats Published in: SCIENCE

6. Title: Effects of helpers on juvenile development and survival in meerkats Published in: SCIENCE

7. Title: Cooperation, control, and concession in meerkat groups Published in: SCIENCE

8. Title: Factors affecting pup growth and survival in co-operatively breeding meerkats Suricata suricatta Published in: JOURNAL OF ANIMAL ECOLOGY

9. Title: Predation, group size and mortality in a cooperative mongoose, Suricata suricatta Published in: JOURNAL OF ANIMAL ECOLOGY
10. Title: Contributions to cooperative rearing in meerkats Published in: ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR

11. Title: The energetics of lactation in cooperatively breeding meerkats Suricata suricatta Published in: PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY OF LONDON SERIES B- BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

12. Title: Individual contributions to babysitting in a cooperative mongoose, Suricata suricatta Published in: PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY OF LONDON SERIES B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

13. Title: Infanticide and expulsion of females in a cooperative mammal Published in: PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY OF LONDON SERIES B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

14. Title: Costs of cooperative behaviour in suricates (Suricata suricatta) Published in: PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY OF LONDON SERIES B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

15. Title: The energetics of lactation in cooperatively breeding meerkats Suricata suricatta.