When a snake finds a home in meerkat territory, the meerkats surround it, hiss at it, and try to get it to move somewhere else. They can’t just pick it up and carry it away, but they can try to intimidate it.
As the narrator says at the 1:35 mark of this clip of Meerkat Manor: “A deadly predator so close to the babysitting borough just won’t be tolerated”
Of course, the snake has to live somewhere. It will probably move to an area with weaker, less vigilant meerkats.
This situation reminds me of sex offender registries. If a sex offender moves into a neighborhood with vigilant parents, they will alert each other and possibly intimidate the predator into moving. I wonder, though, if the unintended consequence of this policy is to push sex offenders into neighborhoods where parents aren’t frequently checking sex offender registry web sites.
