i personally feel that the people could have saved shakespere by scaring away the lazuli. I dont think it would disrupt the meerkat world to save one VERY special meerkat. i know i would have at least tried to do soemthing.
Secondly does anyone know about a webcam where we can watch the meerkats all teh time. i read in an article thats a possibility.
DO you think meerkat manor will come out on dvd soon?

I totally agree. How could they, in good concience, just sit there and know what was about to happen??? I think that was really cruel. The other thing, they have the cameras to film what's happening--how can they say they have NO idea what ever became of Shakespeare??
Particularly if he was injured and moving slowly, why couldn't they track him. I would really like to know how we can write or e-mail the producers of the show. I was so distressed by the Shakespeare incident and how they handled it that I don't know if I will watch it this season.

P.S. I don't know anything about the webcam or the DVD. Sorry.

i hope they make a web cam that u can take your own pics on! we could watch flower and the others walking around the burrow

I think that the whole idea of the project is not to interfere in their lives. I'm sure that the researchers want to save all of the Meerkats, but look at what happened to poor little Bubbles. If they wanted to save someone, why didn't they save the poor little female that was being taken off by a leg? I had nightmares about that one.

I know that this show is about the real life and death happenings of a meerkat mob but I'm not sure that the researchers are even around to help. I gather that there are fiberoptic cameras in a number of the burrows and boltholes but I'm not sure that humans are even always in the area as it is two or three square miles. I did read on another site (UK) that Big Cy was put to sleep because he had TB and they didn't want it to spread. If that is true then they have, at least on that occasion, altered the natural order of things.Perhaps they would have saved Bubbles if they were in the area but only found out about it upon viewing the tapes.

I like the idea of a 24/7 camera. I actually found on the net a webcam site to an African watering hole. I changes to nightvision as the sun goes down. It really is educational and you get to see up close some of the wildlife in their natural environment. There is also one for an "eagle cam" with a close up view of the nest, but no night vision.

Maybe Cambridge can put a 24/7 camera available for the Wisker's watering hole. It seems to have alot of activity.

I too would love to see a Webcam. But there is one thing wrong with that idea. The little critters are always on the go. If they stayed at one burrow all the time, it might work.