Meerkats in popular culture

Meerkats appear in popular culture.

Meerkat Manor, a British television program.
The advertising campaign, Compare the Meerkat, is popular in the UK and Australia.
Timon from The Lion King franchise is a meerkat.
In the book Life of Pi and its film adaptation, the floating island is inhabited by tens of thousands of meerkats, in an environment and grouping unlike real meerkats.
Billy from the film Animals United is a meerkat.^{[citation needed]}
The Meerkats, a 2008 documentary produced by BBC Film, with Paul Newman as the narrator.
A rolling version of the popular GNU/Linux distribution Ubuntu was called "Maverick Meerkat". It was distributed in October 2010, and it was the last version featuring GNOME 2 as main desktop environment.^{[citation needed]}
The Pokémon species Patrat and Watchog, first introduced in Pokémon Black and White, appear to be somewhat based on meerkats.^{[citation needed]}
A meerkat briefly appears in the movie Alvin and the Chipmunks: Chipwrecked, although it is incorrectly referred to as a honey badger by Alvin.^{[citation needed]}
Komiya from the anime series Aggretsuko appears to be a meerkat.^{[citation needed]}