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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National Park Week: Olympic National Park, Washington
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Kissing Day
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New beginnings
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A wassailing we go
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Megalong Valley, Blue Mountains National Park, Australia
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A winter’s holiday ends
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Bringing the moon to Earth
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Mount Logan in Yukon, Canada
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Don’t get lost in there
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National Find a Rainbow Day
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Boxing Day—a shopper’s delight
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A swim in the sky
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Over the boardwalk
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Nakupenda Beach Nature Reserve, Zanzibar, Tanzania
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Lights, camera, Sundance
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Neuschwanstein and Hohenschwangau castles, Bavaria, Germany
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Superbloom in Carrizo Plain National Monument, California
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Happy Thanksgiving!
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Penn Station
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Christmas Eve
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Kelimutu, Flores, Indonesia
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International Day for Monuments and Sites
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Seville celebrates first world tour
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Birds of a feather flocking together
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Autumn in Piedmont
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Palace of Westminster, London, England
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International Day for Monuments and Sites
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Daylight saving time begins
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The ‘Night of Nights’
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Jackie Robinson Day