Pretty much every animal lover has ideas about meerkats after growing up watching The Lion King. It\u2019s pretty likely that we all think of hakuna matata and a warthog when we think of meerkats.<\/p>\n
But why not enormous, lifelike tiger<\/a> stuffed animals? Although that might sound out of place, after watching this adorable video of one precious little meerkat playing with their giant tiger stuffy, we bet that no one will ever see meerkats the same way again.<\/p>\n What makes this video so striking is how lifelike this stuffed tiger is! At first, we thought that this meerkat was just hanging out on top of this tiger\u2019s head like they were doing some sort of Lion King reenactment<\/a>, LOL.<\/p>\n However, that is not the case because this tiger is just a giant stuffed animal, LOL. Seriously, if we saw that stuffed tiger outside our front door, we would be afraid to go outside, LOL.<\/p>\n Related: Meerkats’ Bewildered Reaction to Seeing Australian Shepherd Is Absolutely Perfect<\/a><\/p>\n This has got to be one of the most realistic-looking stuffed animals we have ever seen! But hey, there is no denying how much this meerkat enjoys playing with their enormous stuffy.<\/p>\n It\u2019s the size difference between these two animals, not to mention their vastly different natures, that makes this video so adorable.<\/p>\n While it is unlikely that these two would be friends in real life, this does make for one heck of an adorable video!<\/p>\n Meerkat Fun Facts<\/p>\n Did you know that meerkats have some of the best teamwork of any animals on earth<\/a>? It\u2019s true!<\/p>\n These adorable little creatures will live in groups as small as three and as big as 50! That\u2019s a lot of meerkats, LOL! So, they clearly have plenty of opportunities to learn how to play and work together.<\/p>\n Their native habitats are the deserts and grasslands of southern Africa. They often live together in burrows, which helps keep these highly social animals safe from predators as well as the harsh heat of the climate they live in.<\/p>\n Thankfully, these adorable little creatures are not an endangered species. While we would never see a meerkat playing with a tiger or lion in the wild, watching this one play with their stuffed animal in this video was totally adorable!<\/p>\n \ud83d\udc36<\/a>SIGN UP to get \u201cpawsitivity\u201d delivered right to your inbox with inspiring & entertaining stories about our furry & feathered friends<\/a>\ud83d\udc3e\ud83d\udc3e<\/a><\/p>\n This story was originally reported by PetHelpful<\/a> on Nov 5, 2025, where it first appeared in the Pet News<\/a> section. Add PetHelpful as a Preferred Source by clicking here.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Pretty much every animal lover has ideas about meerkats after growing up watching The Lion King. It\u2019s pretty…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":273981,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[51],"tags":[146166,79,146164,146165,201],"class_list":{"0":"post-273980","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-wildlife","8":"tag-meerkats","9":"tag-science","10":"tag-stuffed-animal","11":"tag-stuffed-tiger","12":"tag-wildlife"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273980","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=273980"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273980\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/273981"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=273980"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=273980"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=273980"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}