The Meerkat's out of the Bag

The meerkat is no mere cat (or kat or qat, which are variations in spelling—and Scrabble favorites—of the word for an evergreen shrub of Arabia and Africa, the leaves of which are used as a narcotic when chewed or made into a beverage). In fact, meerkats are small mammals of the mongoose family. And not unlike most other living creatures both human and non-human nowadays, they star in their own reality TV show.

They are also stars at our local zoo, where one did a good impression of Reed.