Meerkat close encounter

Wildlife Photographer  will Beauregard Lucas gives new meaning to the term up close and personal while photographing Meerkats in the wild. Makgadikgadi pan Botswana when family of meerkats discovered a wildlife photographer on his stomach angling  for a picture outside their burrow  they didn't  hide. Instead they used him as a lookout rock! baby meerkat  pups venturing above ground for the first time took turrns playing with photographer will burrard Lucas's camera. one bold about hoisted himself onto  brurard Lucas's and scaled to  the top of the camera lens he was holding. They were trying to get as look around burard lucas says. for meerkats the higher you get the safer you are because you can hopefully spot says Kenton ketrns bioloqist at the smithsonian's  national zoo in washington D.C. If they can find a stable  spot that's hihger than their normal places they"ll do anything to get there including climbiing a human.before packing  up the day burred lucas  writhed  patienty wile one curious meerkat  peered through the lens of his camera on  the ground another meekat walked right front of it How that  for a close up.   called book is national  Gecasgraphic almanac.https://www.wildencounters.ie/meet-the-meerkats