Meerkats in popular culture
Meerkats appear in popular culture.
- Meerkat Manor, a British television program.
- The advertising campaign, Compare the Meerkat, is popular in the UK and Australia.
- Timon from The Lion King franchise is a meerkat.
- In the book Life of Pi and its film adaptation, the floating island is inhabited by tens of thousands of meerkats, in an environment and grouping unlike real meerkats.
- Billy from the film Animals United is a meerkat.
- The Meerkats, a 2008 documentary produced by BBC Film, with Paul Newman as the narrator.
- A rolling version of the popular GNU/Linux distribution Ubuntu was called "Maverick Meerkat". It was distributed in October 2010, and it was the last version featuring GNOME 2 as main desktop environment.
- The Pokémon species Patrat and Watchog, first introduced in Pokémon Black and White, appear to be somewhat based on meerkats.
- A meerkat briefly appears in the movie Alvin and the Chipmunks: Chipwrecked, although it is incorrectly referred to as a honey badger by Alvin.
- Komiya from the anime series Aggretsuko appears to be a meerkat.
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