Honestly, we"re not sure who decided that July 24 was Cousins Day, but we"re all for it—and these meerkats look like they are too. A clan (also called a mob, gang, or manor) usually contains about 20 or 30 meerkats, but some extended families have 50 or more. Females can detect the odor of their kin and use it to avoid inbreeding. They’re native to southern Africa, including the Kalahari Desert in Botswana, which is where this clan was photographed.
Can you see the family resemblance?
Today in History
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World Childrens Day
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Burns Night in Scotland
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Hollywood s big night
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A bird of beauty
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World Space Week
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Infinity Day
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Flamingos of the Chilean desert
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Whales in winter
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Time to count some birds
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Holey moley–it’s National Doughnut Day!
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Oud-West, Amsterdam, Netherlands
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Lion cubs, South Africa
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Yabba-Dabba-Doo!
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Twas a night just like tonight
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Hues of Hokkaido
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Life goes on at the Beatles Ashram
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‘Ocian in view! O! The joy.’
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Martin Luther King Jr. Day
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Native American Heritage Day
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From Sputnik to extraterrestrial storms
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Shining like Klondike gold
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Yosemite National Park turns 132
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Singing praises of the oceans
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Museum Mile Festival
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Sparkling ice diamonds on a black sandy beach
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Kalalau Beach on the Nā Pali Coast, Kauai, Hawaii
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Gone ‘lightseeing’ in Berlin
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Glenfinnan Viaduct
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National Hummingbird Day
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Women s suffrage at 100
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