For 100 What is the call of an evicted female?

What is a Forlorn Beep?

For 200 Social digging members of the group form what to clean sand from boltholes and sleeping burrows?

What is Digging Chains?

For 300 It has been confirmed that meerkats do not use these two clues to locate boltholes?

What is Visual and Olfactory?

For 400 At KMP research site, mortality due to this within the large groups may be higher than mortality of predation?

What is Starvation or Epidemic Desease? (If you said food competition/starvation or desease I gave you half credit)

For 500 Digging meerkats frequently stop and glance around for short periods this activity is called?

What is Guarding Away?

Tosca - 1450
Kathy3 - 1500
Cordeekat - 1500
Momakat - 1100
DF DF DF (Bravo) one juicy scorpion for you...
Balletcat - 800 again just a beautiful song
Squirrelly - 600

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Answer Time: (page #s are from the TCB book)
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For 100: Which living kats have a birthday today?
Who are Yara, Sera, Cody Commandos and JoJo Hello Elveera. (technically)


For 200: Holly gave birth to which kats in the litter after Flower's?
Who were Mr. Burns VWM028, Smithers VMF029 and pup VWP027.


For 300: Who was in Flower's first surviving litter and when were they born?
Who are Baddiel VFW049, Stato WVM050 and Skinner VWF051 born August 18, 2002.


For 400: In almost all cases, the female meerkat that commits infanticide is what?
What is pregnant. pg.120 (female doesn't neccessarily have to be DF)


For 500: Presumably, the safest time for a mother to give birth is when?
What is when all other breeding females are similarly occupied and females cannot easily identify their own pups. pg.152 (Good example is the Jan 2007 mixed litter of Petra, Flo and Ella)


ballet: 25+200+150+395+0= 770

TW (gallantfox): 25+200+150+395+0= 795

TQ: 25+200+300+395+0= 920

Momakat: 75+200+150+400+0= 825 (took 25 points off for Coop in 100)

Squirrelly: 100+200+300+400+0= 1000

Cordee: 1500!!! Perfect Score!!!!


This was a scoring nightmare!
Way to go cordee!
Thanks for playing!

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For 100 In season 2’s episode No Place Like Home, which meerkat bearing the scars of a brutal eviction is all alone?
Who is Mozart?

For 200 The topography of the reserve consists fo vegetated("fossil") dunes covered with grasses and separated by valleys up to how many m across?
What is 300?

For 300 When was TB first noticed in the study population of meerkats?
When is the late 1990s?

For 400 Because dominant females sometimes kill pups born to subordinates during their first days of life, they could encourage some subordinate females to do what by systematically sparing their pups?
What is remain in the group?

For 500 Who habituated the Avatar group?
Who is Grant McIlrath?

Scores:
Tosca 1100 7:08
Gallantfox 1100 6:06
Mamakat 700 6:15
LoyalkatSophie 1100 4:18 Winner!
Ratties 1100 7:37
Squirrelly 900 9:01

Congratulations, LoyalkatSophie! Great game everyone, thanks for playing!

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100-What happened on 21-9-06?
What is Kim was killed by a vehicle?

200-What happened on 22-9-2000?
What is Aphrodite and Artemus return to the group?

300-Bateleur eagles are always watched closely-but they are not what ?
What is common predators of meerkats?

400-When Dafilia sat to sketch the animals, they often what?
What is Climbed all over her?

500-Though bateleurs sometimes take meerkats, _____ ______ are more dangerous predators?
What is Martial Eagles?


Kathy3- 1500->>>>>>WINNER

Ratties-1200
Squirrelly-1200
Tosca-700
Ballet-500

Congrats Kathy great game everyone and happy Thanksgiving. Remember to say a little prayer fror all the furries to have a peace filled comfort filled holiday.....

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The official scoring and answers.....
100: Who's much anticipated birthday is coming up and how old will this kat be?
Who is Zaphod~ he will be 10!

200: Why is this significant?
What is no KMP male meerkat on record has lived this long.

300: What happened on Sept 23, 2001?
What is Zaphod assumed dominance of Whiskers with Vialli, Risca is evicted.

400: Three separate subspecies of Kalahari meerkats are recognized. What are they?
What are Suricata suricatta iona (in SW Angola); S. suricatta majoriae (in W Namibia) and S. suricatta suricatta (Kalahari and central/southern S. Africa)

500: What causes the characteristic red color of Kalahari sand?
What is iron oxide.

TQ= 1500 WINNER!!!!
Squirrelly= 1200

I'm having problems posting in MSN--both MMF and QMJ. So if I'm not around, that's why.

Have a great Black Friday! Don't spend all the money in one place!

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What's in a name?

For 100, I am an Elveera and my name means "search"
- Kangela, "search" in Xhosa

For 200, I am a Lazuli and named for an African teacher & leader, and also the title of a mini-series for the South African Broadcasting Corporation
- Shaka Zulu

For 300, we are Whiskers and named for cartoon characters in a series
- Panthro, Cheetara, and Wiley Kat, from the Thundercats

For 400, I was a Drie Doring and named for the English title, of an Elizabethan-era Irish ballad
- Dark Rosaleen, from the poem Dark Rosaleen translated by James Clarence Mangan, original title Roisin Dubh

For 500, I was a Commando, and if you change one letter of my name, it will become the name of a creature invented by Lewis Carroll.
- Baldersnatch - change the "l" to "n" = Bandersnatch "avoid the frumious Bandersnatch", Alice in Wonderland

SCORES:

Player Post time Place Total ' 100 ' 200 ' 300 ' 400 ' 500
Cordee 4:01 ' 1 1500 1 1 1 1 1
Slew/GallantFox 4:38 1400 0 1 1 1 1
Jtutton 7:18 200 0 1 0 0 0
Squirrelly 8:24 ' 2 1500 1 1 1 1 1
Cordee, you are on a roll!

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For 100 David Brideoake, Australia's most successful show jumping trainer, has a horse on his team that shares the same name as this DM.
Who is Zaphod?

For 200 This DF has a name which is also an Afrikan skunk like mammal that is reported to be the smelliest on the planet.
Who is Zorilla?

For 300 In Dec. 07, who were the oldest subordinate male and female?
Who are Harvey and Little My?

For 400 When Evi visited the Frisky while foraging this meerkat was trying to dig a hole through Alaska?
Who is Clinton Baptiste?

For 500 In season 2, Young Blood, what do we see drinking from the trough (aside from meerkats)?
What is a yellow mongoose?

Scores:
Squirrelly 750 12:19
Gallantfox 1000 11:37
ToscaQ 1500 5:10 Winner!!
RattiesR 900 6:59
Mamakat 900 5:10

Congratulations, Loving and great game everyone! I look forward to tomorrow’s game in our other test burrow! This is fun!

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