I believe Mozart's death was stage. Please dont get me wrong here. She was my favorite meerkat and im so sadden by her death. She was the best meerkat, but I think the producers stage that final shot so it will be a tear jerker.

The reason I believe it was stage is this. If she was attacked by a coyote, I dont believe we would of seen her body. This is the Khalahri, if a coyote had killed her, it would of carried off her body and eaten, food would not be wasted in the desert. I believe that dead body was probably another meerkat that died of disease or snake bit or any number of reason some time ago and they went into their archives..that was not Mozart's body.

Poor poor mozart, you stayed by Shakespeare's side when he was bitten by a snake. You were by Carlos' side when he died of infection. You were by Kinkaju's side when she died in the night, but you, my favorite kat, you died alone. At least in your final moments you found love, in your final moments you knew you were loved. You will be greatly missed.

Funny you would post this, I was thinking the same thing after I watched it last night. Even though I knew she would die in this episode, it was still hard to watch. But I thought to if a jackal got her, there would be no body to see. Maybe they showed it that way so there would be some closure for those of us who love her so much....

I am so glad that someone posted this. I was thinking the same thing. Last night was so sad, eventhough I knew what was coming and had thought I'd already come to terms with it. It wasn't as sad as watching Flower in her final moments because we didn't see Mozart's final moments(thank goodness!!)but saw her(or someone else's body as a stand in)in her final sleep.
RIP my sweet girl. You were always loved and accepted by all of us, you just didn't know it.

I AGREE. I THINK THAT THESE PRODUCERS BELIEVE IT'S OUT WITH THE OLD AND IN WITH THE NEW, NEW MEERKATS NEW CHARACTERS. UNFORTUNATELY, THE VIEWERS HAVE A HARDER TIME ACCEPTING THESE CHANGES.
I AM A LOYAL VIEWER BECAUSE I FELL IN LOVE WITH SHAKESPEARE, MOZART, TOSCA, AND FLOWER. NOW THEY ARE ALL GONE.
I HOPE THINGS GO WELL FOR ZAPHOD, BUT I DON'T HAVE A GOOD FEELING.
I HAVE TO SAY THAT THE BALANCE OF THIS SHOW HAS BECOME UNEVEN. I NO LONGER COME AWAY FEELING GOOD. ALTHOUGH, I KNOW THAT LIFE IS NOT ALWAYS FAIR AND PLEASANT, COME ONE, LIFE CAN BE MORE PLEASANT THAN THIS SHOW. WHAT A BUMMER!
THIS SHOW IS TOO DEPRESSING.
I HAVE TO WALK AWAY!

Or maybe the researchers scared off the attacking animal before it could carry Mozart away so they could bury her body next to her mother's body.

R.I.P. FLOWER
R.I.P. MOZART

I totally agree. I posted this in the other forum. The meerkat they showed was too heavy to be Mozart. And Wilson was not looking down on her at the end. Just a Meerkat sunning itself in the morning to me. There was no collar on Mozart, so how could they track her? She is not part of the Whiskers. AP wanted to show us closure as we did not get that with Shakes. Still do not know if he made it. End of the season next week and they move on. Poor little Mozart. May you finally have the peace that you wanted all along. The little engine that could finally came to a stop. You always tried your best and we love you for that. This part of your journey has ended, but little Princess of the Kalahari, we love you and always will.

If that wasn't Mozart's body, then how can they be sure that she's dead?

hi
I am new to this but not MM.....since August I have become an MM addict. I too thought that if attacked there would be no body, animals kill to survive, they don't do it like we do...there is no waste,,,,,maybe they did bury her or whatever, as difficult as it was to watch we as humans do need closure, so....therefore that heartbreaking scene. I was devasted hoping that Mozart would finally have what she has so desperately seeked (like all of us) But the show is wonderful, full of life as it is, yes I think that they have to use certain footage to tie a story line together to keep us interested and to help us understand what they see via hundreds of hours of material but if we are so taken with the little access we see I can only imagine those dedicated people who live it with the meerkats day in and day out. I can only imagine the courage, committment and heartbreak to allow events to happen w/o interfeering. I await the last episode and can't stand the thougt of waiting until next august. so thans for all the info and caring your messages have given me mary g

Right now I am living in a fantasy land where one of the film crew swept little Mozart up, and has her residing in a meerkat haven full of yummy scorpions and a loving adoptive family.

All, I understand you think the Jackal should have eaten Mozart, but not necissarily. I viewed a dcoumentary about a Meerkt family filmed in early 2000's. Digger was the main story line and his sister Grace was predited by Jackals and left for dead. They did not take her or eat her. Perhaps at some point they or other preditors ate her but not on film. This was filmed by a UK film company.

She wasn't attacked by a coyote, she was attacked by a Jackal. And dobi77 is right. Also, if you go on KMP, they said that Mozart was predated by a jackal. So that really was her.

Also- so many of you are thinking that it's AP's fault that the meerkats are dying- but it's FAR FROM THAT!! A lot of them are dying because of tuberculosis, and the researchers don't know how to help them. AP is just giving us the reality. This is a documentary, and you can't expect everyone to live happily ever after.

yes and the lack of rain didnt help matters. Also its more of a soap opera than a documentary.

I don't know what I think at this point but I really am getting way too emotionally attached to these Meerkats. I remember last season watching some episodes that didn't have tragedy at the end. I didn't end up crying every episode. This season it seems that every single episode is so sad. The worst is, I tuned in midway and thought Mozart would be ok, with Wilson and not alone and then, but nooooooooooo, ends up tragic too. I just want a happy episode, is that too much to ask?

i agree with u meerkatluver03 the shows r never happy anymore its always sad and now since flower died i cant help but cy after every show feeling sorry for some meerkat.

After posting earlier I went to Wikipedia and read about meerkat manor. I learned a few things that I feel the fans should know.

Under the Whiskers family it mentions something (hopefully this will help us understand the last show of this season)
"Maybelline, Rocket Dog's sister and rival for leadership of the Whiskers clan. With Rocket Dog's leadership of the Whiskers mostly secure, maybelline left the Whiskers with 5 pups from the group and several adults to form a new group, the Aztecs." This explains what Sean ment when he stated that the Commandoes was fighting a Faction of the Whiskers. If it was the fill group the Whiskers would have won.

Under the Lazuli family
"The Lazuli are a family of meerkats who were the neighbors and main rivals of the Whiskers until season 3. ... They were led by Cazanna and Big Si, but Big Si contracted tuberculosis and Cazanne also later died of disease."

Under the Commandoes family
"The Commandoes are a family of meerkats that are vicious enemies of the Whiskers and are the main antagonists of season 2, eventually managing to take over a part of Whiskers territory. In season 3, several in the group were lost to tuberculosis. The commandoes group is primiarily gilmed using the Vivian research group rather than the actual Commandoes group ... In particular, the dominant coupe on the show is actually the Vivian dominant couple.

Under the Zappa family
"Much of the footage of the 'Zappa' group shown in the series is actually footage of a research group called 'The Young Ones.' Axel has a research number that indicates he is probably a Young Ones pup ... However, footage of the dominant couple and the story events of the Zappa are of the real Zappa group."

Under the Starsky family

Kinkajou did not die of no food...she died of TB.

It seems taht the show has not told us everything. TB has taken many of the meerkats. How did TB get introduced to the animals? Do they have their own strange or did humans introduce it to them? Since the researchers do have contact with these families; is there a way of giving each one a drug to prevent this disease from taking more of them? Maybe the reason the Jackel did not eat Mozart is maybe she had TB too.

I will still watch the show, I love it. Even though the footage we see may not be the family they are talking about, the life of these little animals is still interesting.

I don't beleive that Little Mozart's death was staged. I beleive that she was killed by something and maybe that wasn't her body, but the producers had to put "a body" there for closure. I agree that if she was killed by a jackel or coyote there would be no body left.

I cried for Mozart as I cried for Flower. My two favorite Meerkats are gone to rest in peace. Although the little meerkats have had a rough year this season and I can't beleive there is only one more episode left, I do believe there is good fortune and brighter futures for the remaining Kalahari Dersert "Sun Angels". I can't wait for next season to begin and pray that the little meerkats will see better and brigher futures.

Mozart's death was real. Under the KMP's info on the Starsky, (which is far more reliable then the series) it mentioned the predation of Mozart.

A jackal didn't have to eat her. She could of escaped, but was left with many wounds and died due to loss of blood. In a documentary known as "A Kalahari Family Saga", a meerkat named Ginger was killed by a jackal but wasn't eaten. A jackal attack was just one of the terms of Mozart's death.

Also, she was starving. If she was attacked and left with serious wounds in normal conditions (enough food, still with the Whiskers) she may of survived.

I loved her and I can't believe she is lost. But logic leads me to known that she is gone. If Mozart's death was staged, then why did they stage it? The makers of MM knew that Mozart was loved by many, and her loss would only drop ratings and they would receive many letters. I just won't believe that they made it up.

She could have been attacked by a jackel then escaped, but badly injured and died. Remember ginger on "A Meerkat Familt Saga?"

IT WAS NOT STAGED, AND I AM SICK OF HEARING POSTS LIKE THIS!!!

Maybe I should clarify. Im not doubting that our little Mozart is dead. That ending scene was edit and stage is my belief. With Wilson going to look for her and seeing her dead body. To me that was staged and edit for good story telling. I've kept a close eye to what is currently happening on the manor at kmp. If you visit their site you will see that the producers make up a lot of things. For instance, the Commandos are lead by different pairs. They were formed from a large Young Ones rover coalition and a party of young Gattaca females evicted by Risca (flower's sister). Aragorn, one of the Young Ones immediately gain dominance and after his death his son Ketamine now act as dominant male along side his mother Zorilla.

The producers may of use another group or changed their names to Hannibal and Kikita, and Ketamine maybe Wilson. Who knows, what I do know is they dont tell you things as is and make things up to suit their purpose; if their purpose was to show dead Mozart and Wilson going looking for her to create drama, then they will stage it so.

Go vist KMP site, you will see for yourself. You will see the Whisker splinter group (The Aztecs) is lead by Monkulus not Maybeline. And that JD was the dominant male of the Starsky not Carlos. Im sorry, but I just cant trust what the producers decide to edit and show us.

Rhian and Jim Bob are Nikita and Hannibal.
JD is Carlos, Monkulus(very ugly name) is Maybelline. Do a little research before you post.

I know vvery well that they would never do that to our meerkats.

Hi Everyone! I've just come back from the KMP site . . . VERY good reading!! It's different from the somewhat fictional episodes we may see, but perhaps there would be no really "exciting" stories to see if AP didn't take the researchers' footage and put it together with Sean Austin's narration to bring it to life in human terms for us to really appreciate all these darling little meerkats. I suppose the tragedies on AP didn't occur exactly the way shown, but still, we have to know the deaths are real . . . it would be cruel to us viewers to make us weep over a creature that is very much alive, wouldn't it?? I really love this show, although extremely heartbreaking at times, but I'm trying to steel myself against taking every detail as fact. But that doesn't mean we need to get angry with the producers. After all, if it wasn't for the story line each week, how many of us would really watch it faithfully? Look at the silent clips on KMP . . . would you watch them over and over again? No! It's the story lines that keep us going . . . so KUDOS to the writers!! Now write us some more HAPPY moments, okay!!

P.S. I forgot to ask: What is Wikipedia?? Can someone please tell me??

all i know is i cannot take much more of seeing these great little creatures dying like this. mozart was one of the best.she is now with flower again, and her sisters and all the rest.do not think it is a stage. its just life.

Nicely put baby_boomer:

By the way, wikipedia is an on-line dictionary, encyclopedia. It's like an everything you want to know about everything web-site.

Mozart was killed by a predator, but unknown if it is a jackel. Here is proof,

The Starsky group was formed in August 2006 by four evicted Whiskers females and the Lazuli and Young Ones males who had previously abandonned the PQ group. Male dominance was immediately taken by the Lazuli male JD, but none of the females ever established a clear dominance. Of the four litters born into Starsky, none survived the first days. All members were subsequently lost, due to poor foraging conditions, disease and predation. With the predation of the female Mozart, the Starsky group was last seen in April 2007.

Mozart is dead, according to the KMP site. The researchers would not have stopped the coyote. That poor thing could have died from starvation if they had. They probably saw the killing take place on film and were nice enough not to show us. They might have seen the blood stains and any bones that were left over. They probably showed a meerkat that did not have a gory death to give fans closure and to not traumatize us as much.

Attila

I am not new to mm I have been watching since the first episode but I am new here can someone direct me to the KMP site I would love to do some reading about my meerkat friends please