Dining out with Drie Doring

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The Meerkat Manor researchers have two tricks up their sleeves for getting the meerkats onto the scales to be weighed. They have egg. And they have water. The Drie Doring meerkats are mostly not much interested in egg (it's not a natural part of meerkat diet, and if they're not introduced to it when young they may never learn to appreciate it), but they can usually be enticed onto the scales by using the water bottle.

But not today. Today they have found this:

"Why yes, we would much prefer to drink this scummy green water with floating dead ants instead of your boring clean researcher water, thank you very much!"

And then they all squeezed into the tiny patch of shade underneath the trough:

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