Honestly, we"re not sure who decided that July 24 was Cousins Day, but we"re all for it—and these meerkats look like they are too. A clan (also called a mob, gang, or manor) usually contains about 20 or 30 meerkats, but some extended families have 50 or more. Females can detect the odor of their kin and use it to avoid inbreeding. They’re native to southern Africa, including the Kalahari Desert in Botswana, which is where this clan was photographed.
Can you see the family resemblance?
Today in History
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Remembering the Arizona
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Flag Day
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Avatar Mountains, Zhangjiajie National Forest Park, China
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Golling Waterfall, Salzburg, Austria
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Let s run em up!
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Best fronds forever
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Waiānapanapa State Park, Maui, Hawaii
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Schönbrunn Palace Park, Vienna, Austria
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Smithsonian Secretary Lonnie Bunch on the institution s 175th anniversary
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Shark Awareness Day
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A light at the edge of the world
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Raise your hand for Teacher Appreciation Day
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Swim city
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Composite image of a lunar eclipse
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Fresh water on the Silk Road
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North Sea at sunset, Norddorf, Germany
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Central Highlands of Vietnam
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Celebrating whales—and a whale of a tale
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Rooftops in the walled city of Urbino, Italy
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Arbor Day
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Earth at Perihelion
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Islands of the Salish Sea
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3, 2, 1 … Happy New Year!
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Flocking together in the Antarctic
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National Park Service Founders Day
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Cloughoughter Castle, County Cavan, Ireland
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Happy Lunar New Year!
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Patriot Day
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Florentine garden brings generations together
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America s Playground by Derrick Adams