Meerkat vs sweet-sage

Suricata suricatta compared with Lantana trifolia

Taxonomic Classification

Rank	Meerkat	sweet-sage
Kingdom	Animalia (Animals)	Plantae (Plants)
Phylum	Chordata (Chordates)	Magnoliophyta (Flowering Plants)
Class	Mammalia (Mammals)	Magnoliopsida (Dicots)
Order	Carnivora (Carnivorans)	Lamiales (Lamiales)
Family	Herpestidae	Verbenaceae
Genus	Suricata	Lantana
Species	Suricata suricatta	Lantana trifolia

Conservation Status

Meerkat

LC — Least Concern

sweet-sage

LC — Least Concern

Physical Characteristics

Attribute	Meerkat	sweet-sage
Diet	—	—
Average Lifespan	—	—
Average Length	—	—
Average Weight	—	—

Habitat & Geographic Range

Meerkat

Habitat

Typically found in diverse terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems.

Range

Distributed across Belgium and Ecuador.

sweet-sage

Habitat

Typically found in diverse terrestrial habitats from tropical forests to temperate regions.

Range

Widely distributed across Africa (6 countries), Asia (India, Taiwan), and South America (Brazil, Colombia).