Scurry of the Meerkat

As we begin our tour through Fremd high school please do consider the following:

1) Enjoy your tour! Our goal is to inform and entertain you of our various animals. Sit, relax, and enjoy. We hope that you will take our teachings about our animals to heart and respect each and every one of them.
2) Any negativity towards our animals may be taken outside of the school.
3) Please keep all hands and feet in the train cars. Anyone leaving the car and taking their own tour of the school WILL BE LEFT BEHIND. We can not promise that there will be no sudden urge to attack within our animals.
4) Please do not bring any food on our tour. Most of our animals have a keen smell and will go after a person for the prize of having something to eat (it could be your food or you).
5) Our animals may be easily provoked by loud, obnoxious blabbering. If there is a question please raise your hand and ask the guide. He or she will be glad to answer, but please limit any other talking. Be like the wind, soft, but still within our presence. We don’t want to lose you during the tour. On that note, sleeping is NOT permitted.


Sadly, our more, shall we say, dangerous animals have been blocked off for today. There will be no information present about our lions, tigers, or bears or animals of that nature present in our tour. We apologize for we know they are the kings and queens of our school and have the most interesting information. However, they will be roaming around the halls so please don’t be discouraged. Today we will focus on one of our more unknown animals that you might find interesting towards the end of our tour, our meerkats.

The meerkats are practically one of the smallest animals we hold here at Fremd high school. As we drive along the halls please notice the height difference of a meerkat compared to one of our lions. They are merely unnoticeable when seeing the two side by side. Our bigger animals are able to step right on them or throw them to the side if the meerkat did not look out. Meerkats have a scrawnier, frail body structure and their weight averages a little over a pound making them the most defenseless animals here. You can see that our meerkats are almost always in packs and groups. We have come to the conclusion that this is their form of safety, their protection towards the more dangerous animals. They travel through the halls of Fremd high school together as a big group hoping that the bigger animals may overlook them. We have noticed the traveling in big packs screams “we are meerkats, please spare us,” and it just provokes the bigger animals in manipulating or humiliating them. Meerkats are antsy creatures as they try to move from hallway to hallway hoping to make it alive and to the right place. But these animals can get pretty obnoxious. Loud barks may be heard from across the hall as one meerkat group tries to communicate with another. It becomes so annoying you want to whack one on the head and oh, it’s happened. Other bigger animals have given glares of death to meerkats from time to time which shuts them up as fast as a light switch. When making contact with a lion or tiger a meerkat stick their neck out and widen their eyes in fear. In time, the meerkat will realize they have come upon a larger animal and scurry as fast they can as if nothing happened. As we move on in our tour we can see that basically all meerkats look the same. No you’re not seeing the same ones over and over again it’s their look. The same natural brown, dull, skin and fur, their long, sharp nails and not to mention the dark black circles under their eyes. It’s all natural people, believe me…
Their mating call seems to be the one common element that connects meerkats with other animals in our high school. A male meerkat may “groom” the female, playing with her until she accepts his offer. This relationship initiates a new group. The fresh group will either flourish or break down and cause mini wars creating even more chaos in our school. Yes, meerkats cause dramas. The male meerkats can be too egotistical fighting for the leader of the group with other males and the females, oh boy, catty little creatures. The females move from group to group trying to raise their status in the school. Within their group they try to show their dominance when in reality they do not rule the school compared to the lions. To the lions, they are just another species to deal with. Our meerkats are an interesting breed added to our high school and 50% of you probably didn’t even know meerkats existed. We must remember though that they are animals too and must receive the same respect as the other animals. As we conclude our tour and examine these interesting creatures it is clear that meerkats are simply trying to find their place in the animal kingdom.

Does it remind you of anyone you know?