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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Anza-Borrego Desert State Park, California
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National Find a Rainbow Day
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Vermilion Cliffs National Monument
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Château de Villandry, France
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Arc de Triomphe du Carrousel and the Louvre Pyramid
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A willowy welcome to spring
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Floating temples in the Land of Smiles
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An avian predator built for the snow
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International Day of the Tropics
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National Llama Day
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Happy birthday, Saguaro National Park
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Grab onto the handlebars, kid
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Northern hawk-owl
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European Day of Parks
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Green fields of grain
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Autumnal equinox
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Celebrating Charles Darwin
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It’s oh so quiet
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Yungang Grottoes, Shanxi, China
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A crested partridge
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World Rainforest Day
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It’s National Dolphin Day!
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The lights of Paris
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Congratulations, 2019 Nobel Prize laureates!
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National Umbrella Day
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Mediterranean red sea stars
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Albion Falls, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
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Registan Square, Samarkand, Uzbekistan
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Aspens in the White River National Forest, Colorado
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Coming home to roost
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