It's been a decade since I first watched all the series of this show. I learned so much about these adorable and resilient intelligent little creatures. My utmost respect to their social order and survival techniques. While I can't recount each season, I can tell you that I have never been so emotionally devastated watching any animal documentary before. Getting to know these meerkat clans, their babies, their losses... It was almost too much. There were times I found myself screaming at the production crew to intervene and help the poor creature. Like when a pup was separated from the pack, and couldn't find its way back, left to die helplessly in the desert. I know many claim people should not intervene on nature, yet we applaud such human interventions to save animals all the time. There are thousands of examples of animal rescues from around the world, where good people step in to help a wild animal in harms way. Why is this not the case when it's a "documentary". We rejoice when everyone pitches in to push a grounded whale back out into the safe depth of water. Why not sit back and watch the whale languish and die as to not intervene on nature? Because we know it is wrong to not help we we can. There were many situations where production could have easily saved these meerkats, but instead filmed their deaths for dramatic tragic storylines (under the guise of not interfering). That's why I removed 3 stars. Otherwise, this is a wonderful series that highlights how incredible meerkats are.
