The meerkat stretched out a little paw and appeared to kiss the giraffe.

獴伸出一只小爪子，像是要亲吻长颈鹿。

Zoologists wanted to know why a young meerkat would stop using its charm to get free food and begin working for its own food.

动物学家们想要明白，为何年轻的獴会停止用它的魅力来获取免费食物，开始为它自己的食物工作。

After the televised death of a meerkat in a popular wildlife show was shown recently, the show's office was swamped by grief-stricken notes.

最近，一个受欢迎的野生动物节目在电视山播出了一只獴之死后，节目办公室被表示哀伤的信件淹没了。

Meerkat babies may be the most adorable creatures in southern Africa, but their colony mates manage to stop spoiling them after only a few months.

獴幼崽大概是南部非洲最可爱的生物了，但是，獴群落的配偶设法在仅仅几个月之后停止宠坏它们。

Timon:When I was a young meerkat .

“ 丁满：”当我还是年轻的猫鼬。

The meerkat is in fact a mongoose.

猫鼬实际上是獴科动物。

Pumbaa: When he was a young meerkat.

“彭彭：”当他还是年轻的猫鼬。

A meerkat scouting for predators in the kalahari.

一只猫鼬在喀拉哈里搜寻猎物。

Then all of a sudden he perked up, alert, "like a meerkat".

然后又突然高喊“就像猫鼬”。

For meerkat children, it's sometimes pays to play with their food.

小猫鼬有时候会玩弄它们的食物。

But Meerkat family always fight with other families to protect their habitat.

但是狐獴家族为了保护自己的栖息地，经常和其他家族争斗。

For the meerkat family unable to leave the desert plains, life is now really tough.

猫鼬一家无法离开这个沙漠平原，现在的日子过得十分艰难。

Yes, it's a meerkat, exactly what you expect to find under a duvet in North Hamptonshire.

是的，那正是一只海岛猫鼬，在北汉普顿郡，你通常可以在被窝里找到它。

When cattle stray or tribes people find them separated from the rest of the community then the meerkat will protect them.

当牛走失或部落的人发现他们与社会其他成员脱离的时候，猫鼬就会保护他们。

The sentinel meerkat gains nothing it seems for it can neither eat nor escape quickly and successfully after raising an alarm.

充当哨兵的海岛猫鼬似乎从中得不到任何好处，因为它既不能进食，也不能在发出一个警报之后迅速而又成功地逃脱。

And so, with high spirits, I boldly ventured off where no meerkat (anyone) had dared to go before. I put my past behind me. And never looked back.

就这样，兴高采烈地，我开始了大胆的冒险，去到没人敢去的地方我作别过去，不再回头。

Researchers recorded a range of meerkat vocal sounds and played them to wild meerkats in South Africa, to see how they reacted to different voices.

研究人员对猫鼬的声音范围录了音，并把它给南非的猫鼬听想要弄清它们对不同声音的反应。

Europeans - certainly in terms of Africa - are very recent visitors and a popular belief in the Zimbabwe and Zambian regions is that the meerkat is a sun angel.

欧洲人-当然是就非洲而言-是很近期的来访者，在津巴布韦和赞比亚地区的普遍的看法是，猫鼬是阳光天使。

The Kalahari Meerkat Project noted that the film was not completely accurate but praised it overall, though one reviewer found the "fictionalization" regrettable.

尽管有一位评论家认为影片令人遗憾的进行了虚构，但卡拉哈里猫鼬项目组对影片的评论是略有失真但面面俱全。

Meerkat Manor: the Story Begins is a 2008 American television film created by Discovery Films and Oxford Scientific Films as a prequel to the Animal Planet series Meerkat Manor.

《猫鼬大宅门：故事开始》是美国探索频道影业与英国牛津科学影业于2008年联合推出的《动物星球》连续剧之《猫鼬大宅门》的前传电视电影。