Meerkat Manor

Meerkat Manor  is a television series filmed at the Kuruman River Reserve, home of the Kalahari Meerkat Project (KMP), in South Africa's Northern Cape, by British production company, Oxford Scientific Films and globally distributed by Banijay Rights. Meerkat Manor followed the real-life events of a KMP meerkat group, Whiskers, led by its dominant female, Flower.

This series was presented in the style of a docudrama, with dramatized reenactments of actual events and narration which romanticized and humanized the animals' lives. The unique combination of this soap opera-like presentation with its traditional nature documentary filming techniques and up-close access to the animals proved highly successful.

The original  Meerkat Manor  television docudrama first aired on the UK's BBC and on Animal Planet in the US over four seasons from 2005-2008. The series became a worldwide hit, reaching 204-million households in more than 160 countries. A television film,  Meerkat Manor: The Story Begins , documenting Flower's birth and rise to matriarch of the Whiskers, aired on Animal Planet on May 25, 2008.

In 2020 filming began for a new installment of the Meerkat Manor series, Meerkat Manor: Rise of the Dynasty . The long-awaited follow-up to the original television aired in 2021 and revolved around three meerkat families who share the bloodline of the legendary matriarch, Flower Whiskers.