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Editor's note: This excerpt first appeared in photographer and author Harold Davis' recent Focal Press book, Photographing Flowers: Exploring Macro Photography with Harold Davis.
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Jack's Camp employs a
full-time "Meerkat follower" (at right) whose job is to live with the
Meerkats, camping next to them every night, and keep them accustomed
to a human presence.
Meerkats are social members of the mongoose family (herpestid). A mob
of meerkats gets together to achieve a better lookout and defense
against predators. While most of the group digs for worms and grubs,
a handful of meerkats remain alert for predators on the ground and in
the sky.
Jack's will usually take you out to see the meerkats first thing in
the morning. The animals have trouble shaking off the night's cold
and spend their first 30 minutes or so sunbathing before beginning to
forage. By the time the animals are beginning to wander off and
becoming tough to photograph, the guides will have laid out a field
breakfast complete with hot drinks, boiled eggs, fresh-baked muffins,
etc. Who said that the wildlife photographer's lifestyle had to be
uncomfortable?
