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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Barn owl, England
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Celebrating the UN’s International Day of Families
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White dunes, blue lagoons
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Arambol Beach, Goa, India
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The Cathedral of Florence, Italy
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Third Thai-Lao Friendship Bridge connecting Laos and Thailand
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Snow buntings take flight
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Anniversary of the Endangered Species Act of 1973
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Puma in Patagonia
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A swim in the sky
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New York City skyline
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Holi festival
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The tortoise and the finch
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To Roswell, and beyond!
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Pride Month
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Mid-Autumn Festival
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Halfway Day
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Groundhog Day
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Merry Christmas!
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Happy New Year!
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A notorious advocate for women
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Wooden path to Kennedy Lake, Vancouver Island, Canada
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Citizenship Day and Constitution Day
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Kochia, Hitachi, Ibaraki prefecture, Japan
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Black bear cub emerging into spring
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Assembling the Smithsonian
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St. Paul Winter Carnival
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Big Bend National Parks birthday
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75 years of the United Nations
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World Sea Turtle Day
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