The young researcher sighs as she moves her pen from the pad and bites her bottom lip. Her eyes scan her reports briefly and sighs once more. She looked at her computer with its flashing screen and the names, pictures and data of the meerkats in the project.
She knows that people look at this info, many have choosen favorites amongst the mobs and particular meerkats. But now she would change the info with her latest knowledge. Tragedy struck the project area.
The researcher felt sadness in her heart as she related what she now knew then placing her pad aside she turned fully to her screen and began the task.
Her shaking fingers pressed the buttons as she edited each group, moving many to the Lost section, when she put down the info for why she nearly cried, especially since one of the now lost mobs were her most favorite. The Souls.
Souls (SS)
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The Souls was a group made of the famous Moomin male Fluffernutter and his three siblings. The female Sandstorm took the place of dominant female and was joined by a Eleevra male Jogu. The group raised many pups with few mixed litters.
During one period the Souls splitted and the portion under Sandstorm travel away from the normal area and spent a short time in amongst the mobs there. During that time Sandstorm mated with a unknown male, who took often briefly but was driven off by the males. The litter didn't survive.
The group survived without trouble but then problems occurred. Dominant male Jogu died from unknown causes and the group was chased from their land by a fire. Some of the males left but decease and Starvation claimed the others.
Sandstorm, Jasmine, Toft, and Fluffernutter were the remaining group by 2009 but the three latter vanished and Sandstorm was found dead, bitten by a Cape Cobra.
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The researcher felt tears run down her face and she went over those words she herself had wrote. She felt close to this family but now they, like so many others were gone. This project was failing and many of the meerkat mobs were being struck down. The head of their team decided that they would move to a new study area.
With one more sigh a tear falling on the desk, the researcher clicked okay and then closed the lid.
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