Meerkat Mystery

Heaps of sand Lying everywhere Till Persistence of vision Barren land Scorching sun No speck of natural vegetation Except Here and there Cacti growth Thorny bushes Palm trees Sometimes tempests Twisting and swirling Forming sand dunes Shifting place to place In the midst of all these Sudden appearance Flocks of Meerkat So called Suricata Tetradacta Each emerging From their own burrows Stoic stare Eyes protruding As well as Rotating On all angles In between time delays Much similar To programmed robots Producing peculiar sounds Attracting their friends Synchronous looking Wonderful species Viverrine mammal Found in South Africa It's upto us To protect them Before they become extinct!