"Wildlife photographer Suzi Eszterhas spends two weeks observing baby meerkats in Botswana's Kalahari Desert. In diary entry-style chapters, Eszterhas recounts how the creatures grow from tiny, wobbly meerkat pups to adolescents who hunt scorpions and have (almost) perfected the famous 'tripod' meerkat stance. Along the way, the meerkat mob faces floods, hungry predators, and even a stampede of galloping zebras! Eszterhas's narrative is accompanied by her . . . photographs of the meerkats at every stage of their lives"--Provided by publisher.