- meerkat, mierkat - a mongoose-like viverrine of South Africa having a face like a lemur and only four toes
--1 is a kind of viverrine, viverrine mammal
--1 is a member of Suricata, genus Suricata
--1 has particulars:slender-tailed meerkat, Suricata suricatta; suricate, Suricata tetradactyla