they sleep in holes in the ground early in the morning,they leave their holes and look for food. they eat insect,plants,lizards,egg and mice they can even eat poisonous animals loke scorpions and spiders. when meerkats eat,some of then stand on two legs and guard the others that because some other animals like to eat meerkats. when the guard see an eagle,a snake or a fox,they bark and all the meerkats ran back to their holes.