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     COMMENTS: Flower Power

Meerkat Manor enjoyed the praise of John Donvan on ABC. The nature documentary on a colony of African rodents on Animal Planet is all the rage. Donvan theorized that the critters' big eyes and social interactions make it irresistible for human TV viewers to anthropomorphize them. Thus the program is treated as part reality show, part soap opera. And viewers genuinely mourned, posting YouTube tributes, when Flower the meerkat was killed by a snake.

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