Celebrate Zaphod's 10th birthday!

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December 9th, 2008 is the day to celebrate the 10th birthday of Zaphod, the oldest male meerkat in the KMP!

Zaphod charging

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Zaphod may be the oldest meerkat in the population by years, and the oldest male in the project history - but he's far from being doddery! He's the undisputed dominant male of the Aztecs, and stands his ground when they are attacked by another group, but he also knows to let things happen when his niece and dominant female of the Aztecs, Monkulus, sneaks off with a rover... The king of the Kalahari has become a top notch babysitter showing great vigilance over his family.

Experienced as he is, he doesn't need to spend the entire day digging - his foraging is very efficient, and often crowned by the really succulent prey like scorpions and lizards. So Zaphod is still a very heavy male (about 870g) and is in good condition at the moment. Suggestios to smuggle him a bit of extra egg for his birthday will probably not even be very much appreciated by him - right now there is a lot of food around and he isn't really fond of egg anyway. This doesn't mean though that his human friends in the KMP don't celebrate his birthday...

Zaphod was born on December 9th, 1998, to Vivian VVF001 in a litter of three including his sometimes quirky brother and co-star on Meerkat Manor, Yossarian.  Also in the litter was a female named Rapunzel, who lived with her family for about three years and then disappeared as many subordinate females do.
 
The Kalahari’s patriarch was named after a main character in the popular novel “Hitchikers Guide to the Galaxy”: the Galaxy's president, “Zaphod Beeblebrox”.  A star in his own right Zaphod the meerkat has set a new record. He has lived to the ripe old age of 10.  Quite extraordinary for a male meerkat who fought many hard battles to retain his dominance at the large Whiskers group and survive two long hard droughts in his desert homeland. After the loss of his long time partner, Flower, he decided to rove but figured out that life was too hard as a rover and he settled with the Aztecs, one of the splinter groups of the Whiskers headed by his niece, Monkulus.

Congratulations to your birthday, Zaphod, may you reign for many more years!

To celebrate this special day, we offer 15% royalty discounts on all Zaphod articles in our FKMP store and in Dafila Scott's Kalahari wildlife store, until December 10th!