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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Mid-Autumn Festival
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Bear watching in the Finnish forest
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Juneteenth
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A light at the edge of the world
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Cecropia leaf and lobster claw petals in Mexico
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World Water Day
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Corkscrew Swamp Sanctuary
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Let’s have a ball
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Mangrove Conservation Day
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Poinsettia Day
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On a Healing Field for Veterans Day
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Bowling Ball Beach in Mendocino County, California
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Autumn comes to the Porcupines
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Starling murmuration over the ruins of Brightons West Pier, England
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The island fox’s incredible comeback
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White Sands National Park, New Mexico
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Fashion models of the avian world
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Oktoberfest
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Kelp buddies
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Moving as one
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Dog days of summer
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Happy Bee Day to you
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Sydney Harbour Bridge in Sydney, Australia
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Midwinter freeze
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Cold? What cold?
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Feel the spray in Monterey
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And the skies filled with bats…
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Remembering the Arizona
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Negratín Reservoir, Granada, Spain
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World Lizard Day
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