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Post by Youssarian on Mar 26, 2011 23:28:56 GMT -6
As sunlight penetrates the burrow, a young male named Fiji opens his eyes and blinks suddenly. He's confused, but quickly realizes it's morningtime. Sighing, Fiji pushes himself to his feet, and carefully plucks his way out of the mass of sleeping bodies to emerge into the slowly warming day. He quickly sets about tidying the burrow for a few seconds, but decides he should warm up first. He takes up a quite comical position; lying on his back with his dark colored stomach soaking up the sun's rays.
Still in the burrow is one of the eldest subordinate females, Iceland. She's sleeping next to her sister and littermate, Ireland. Some meerkat kicks her in the face, rudely awakening her. Iceland glances around, and growls at the perpetrator. She glares at Liberia, the dominant female, who is still sleeping. That should be her position. Iceland grumpily stays where she is, not bothering to get up just quite yet.
A three month old youngster named Ecuador is up next. Though he's young, he's very mature and doesn't play around much. He glances around for his siblings, but they are still asleep, so he decides to get up. He stretches and yawns, then emerges, peeping a quiet but friendly greeting to Fiji who looks comfortable in his upside-down sunbathing position. Ecuador finds a nice, cozy spot near Fiji and sits down, positioning himself to maximize the amount of warmth he receives from the sun.
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Post by tosca on Mar 27, 2011 8:04:06 GMT -6
Liberia awakens , she slowly steps over everyone and emerges , she grins at Ecuador and nuzzles him , she looks at Fiji and smirks , Liberia walks over and sits down next to him , she glances around for her mate , Uzbekistan , Liberia yawns and sits back on her haunches she watches a Drongo fly over head bored , she stands up and looks around , shes hoping to go foraging soon , well thats if her lazy mob wake up , she growls to herself and stomps below ground , she barks for everyone to get up and she emerges again , mumbling to herself .
Cuba stretches out and emerges , he peeps a welcome to everyone and stands sentry on a rock , he faces towards the sun but turns his head to the left , he grins to himself , standing sentry AND sunning himself , Multitasking , he looks back towards the sun and spots something , potentially dangerous , a Large male ostrich , he barks the alarm , as the Ostrich gradually gets closer he begins growling and hissing at it to back off , he doesn't realize how much damage one of those large feet could cause ...
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Post by Youssarian on Mar 27, 2011 18:36:37 GMT -6
Fiji glances at Liberia quickly, but resumes his comfortable reclining position, only to be interrupted by Cuba's alarm call. He quickly stands up, frantically looking around for the danger. He spots the ostrich. Fiji immediately goes into action; fur bristling and teeth bared, he joins Cuba as he hisses and growls at the enormous bird, attempting to ward it away.
Ecuador looks up, his little head shooting skyward in an attempt to see the large bird's head. Startled, he backs up into the burrow entrance, not quite wanting to face off with this threatening-looking creature. He cowers close to the burrow, hoping that the bird is driven off soon.
Iceland grumbles when Liberia barks and wakes her up. She wipes her eyes with her front paw, as if trying to remove the sleep caked into them. Stiffly, she emerges, and is confronted with the almost comical scene of two tiny meerkats trying to fend off a great male ostrich. She almost laughs to herself, then takes a position next to little Ecuador, sitting and watching with a smirk on her face.
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Post by rio on Mar 27, 2011 21:17:30 GMT -6
Bhutan and Sudan wake up and look around . They slowly drag themselves up above ground together .
Uzbekistan groggily come sup . he starts to sun himself .
Mozambique comes up , but starts chores .
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Post by x //Dazed [ x ] on Apr 19, 2011 16:55:39 GMT -6
Cambodia rose from the comfortable position that she had rested in throughout the long night. She groaned, realizing that morning brought chores, and duties that needed to be fulfilled. She tryed to resist the thought, but hunger sung in her belly, and the only way to hush it was to leave the comforts that the burrow offered. Groaning, she brought herself to the surface to warm the flesh that had remained cold through the night.
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Post by Youssarian on Apr 20, 2011 12:17:55 GMT -6
Ecuador chirps a friendly greeting to his littermate Cambodia, happy that she's now awake. With a nervous glance at the ostrich still looming ominously over the burrow, he dashes over to her and pounces on her with a playful squeak.
Fiji's hissing increases twofold, determined to ward the ostrich off. His hackles rise even further, his tail sticks up straighter, and his teeth are bared wider. With a final, bloodcurling yowl, he charges straight at the ostrich. The sudden movement frightens the bird, and it decides to meander about somewhere else, leaving the burrow alone. Fiji calms down, seeing the bird retreat, and returns to the burrow.
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Post by x //Dazed [ x ] on Apr 22, 2011 20:27:32 GMT -6
Cambodia was grateful to have a brother to distract her from the task at hand, and happily joined in on the wrestling. She growls playfully, showing that the childsh side of her personality was still living. She struggled to pull herself out from beneath her brother's weight. For a moment, she marveled at how strong he was becoming. Next, she lifted herself from the ground, using all of her strength at once. In one motion, she pinned him to the dusty desert dunes on leapt onto his chest, nipping at him playfully. But next she felt an urge. Hunger sung in her belly, overpowering her urge to play. She sighed. She now realized that she must learn how to care for herself, and that the transition from childhood from adulthood would be rough.
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Post by Youssarian on Apr 23, 2011 9:22:49 GMT -6
Ecuador enjoys rough-housing with Cambodia, exercising while practicing fighting skills, and, most importantly, having fun. He yelps when she gains the upper hand and pins him down, trying to throw his weight around to overpower her. He lets out a pup-like giggle when he hears Cambodia's stomach grumbling. Come to think of it, he was fairly hungry as well. He looked around, waiting for Liberia to lead the group off. Iceland growls grumpily, shaking her head in annoyance. Liberia was a new leader, and still inexperienced. She needs to learn to follow the requests of the group! She growls a bit louder, making it known that she is quite ready to leave. Fiji sits quietly, respecting Liberia. He'll wait patiently, not bothering to rush the dominant female. After all, she is the leader, and ultimately gets to decide the fate of the group, and certain members' standings. Iceland had better be more careful around Liberia. OOC: wow, fail post. I'll get ahold of Tosca and ask her to come post
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Post by x //Dazed [ x ] on Apr 26, 2011 14:21:52 GMT -6
Her imploring eyes searched the horizon, looking for some form of nourishment. Since most of her body fat had been used during the night to keep herself warm, she was extremely famished. Eventually, she grew tired of waiting, and decided to break apart from the group to begin her own forraging party. She let encouraging barks from her throat, directed at Ecuador, making it known that he was welcome.
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Post by Youssarian on Apr 26, 2011 17:32:46 GMT -6
At the sound of Cambodia's imploring peeps, Ecuador turned his head, seeing her break off from the main group in the interest of foraging early. Ecuador is immediately apprehensive; they're still very young, only three months old. However, youthful foolishness gets the best of him, and, with a quick glance around to make sure no one's watching their retreat, he bounds up to Cambodia, happy to accompany her on an adventure.
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Post by tosca on Apr 26, 2011 17:45:44 GMT -6
occ:Sorry bry, its been a while xD Welcome btw Dazed!
Liberia's stomach growls and with some impatient growls from Iceland,she jumps up and heads off, she looks around and quickly begins foraging,she finds a tasty skink and eats it out in the open,the rains have hit and the food supply is plentiful, she yawns and walks over to the shade of a bush, she lies down and stretches out, keeping an eye on Iceland .
Cuba stands sentry instead but abandons the serious duty as his stomach growls, he forages and quickly finds a small beetle which he crunches on whilst performing sentry duty again.
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Post by x //Dazed [ x ] on Apr 27, 2011 17:41:45 GMT -6
A squeaky, joyful noise was released from Cambodia's throat. She was ecstatic to have someone to accompany her on her impromptu foraging trip. She traveled at his side, though she made the decision of which patch of land would have the largest abundance of life. However, she paid careful attention to distance; she did not want to stray too far away from her family to the point where she could not find her way home. She decided it was going to be a quick trip.
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Post by tosca on Apr 27, 2011 18:21:36 GMT -6
Liberia looks around and makes lead calls, she's heading for the water trough located just inside enemy territory,she stretches and begins trotting towards it,she just hopes that today, no one is using the trough and they can drink in peace
Cuba quickly jumps from his log, he follows and a quick pace,licking his lips
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Post by juicymeerkat on Apr 28, 2011 18:22:09 GMT -6
HEYY have i missed much , or can i jump in ?
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Post by Youssarian on Apr 28, 2011 18:23:14 GMT -6
Ecuador looks behind him in order to take a glance at the burrow, but it is now out of view, separated from the traveling youngsters by distance and a large tree. Though he's still a bit uneasy at the thought of foraging with only his sister at such an early age, he quickly puts it out of his mind, turning to Cambodia with a happy smile.
Iceland grumbles, standing up slowly as if she's an old woman with creaky bones. She takes a few slow, stiff steps in the direction Liberia is leading the group, preferring to let the other subordinates walk ahead and take a position near the back of the foraging party.
Fiji immediately stands up, padding after her, eager to fill his hungry belly. He quickly ascertains that from the direction Liberia is leading them, they are probably going to head to the old water trough. Though it's a place filled with plentiful prey and an easy source of water (hard to come by in the Kalahari), it's near enemy territory and he knows they must be careful. He immediately keeps a sharp lookout for predators, even though he's running along after Liberia. A meerkat can never be too safe!
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