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Eszterhas, Suzi

A Meerkat Diary: My Journey into the Wild World of a Meerkat Mob

40 pp. | Owlkids | April, 2024 | Trade ISBN 9781771476386 $18.95
(3) 4-6 Prolific wildlife photographer Eszterhas (My Wild Life) turns her lens on meerkats: “little animals with huge personalities!” Dated diary-like entries catalog her twelve-day experience in the Makgadikgadi Pan in Botswana’s Kalahari Desert observing and interacting with a family of meerkats, including a litter of two-week-old pups. The text is enthusiastic (“I still can’t believe what happened today even as I’m writing about it”), accessible, and informative, and the clear, lively photographs, shared in a scrapbook-like format, bring readers up close and personal with the creatures and their habitat. A brief interview with a meerkat habituator and a naturalist guide (Eszterhas’s guides on the trip) and information about the Indigenous Ju/’hoansi people add further context. A glossary is also appended.
Reviewer: Elissa Gershowitz

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