They sleep in burrows in groups. Burrows are like little underground homes for meerkats, who dig them using their strong claws. A group will dig several burrows so they can shelter from the sun in the day, and escape from deinonychus predators at night. Some people imagine that meerkats sleep in an old termite mound. But the truth is, meerkats sleep in groups in a burrow or underground home.

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In the Kalahari Desert of Southern Africa live five-lined meerkats. Living in an underground burrow and sleeping in the safety of darkness, a group of meerkats is called a gang. Sleepy eyes can be woken up to go hunting, but they must go on with half their body asleep and half awake.

Meerkat usually leaves the burrow at sunset and stays out until dawn. During the day, it rests on a rock or in some halophytic vegetation close to its burrow. In the hot midday sun, meerkats will actively seek out shade under bushes or dig their own shallow depressions in soft sand where they can lie with only their heads exposed.

The small mammals from the Kalahari Desert (Suricata suricatta) live together in a large family and they construct large sleeping nests held together by their own saliva. Interestingly, they do not build their sleeping pods in underground holes such as other burrowing animals. Some meerkats are building the burrows themselves. Usually, there will be 5-12 burrows to each group of meerkats with 2-4 entrances per burrow.

Sleepy Meerkat is a curious creature who can never get to sleep, no matter how tired he is. His friends help him discover new places to sleep. One day, Sleepy Meerkat gets tired of sleeping in the Kalahari Desert and decides to find somewhere else to live, somewhere with a little less sunshine!