 The experimental setup consisted of an apparatus containing food with two possible methods that could be used to obtain the food.Naïve meerkats learned and used the method exhibited by the "demonstrator" meerkat trained in one of the two techniques.Although in this case, imitation is not the clear mechanism of learning given that the naïve meerkat could simply have been drawn to certain features of the apparatus from observing the "demonstrator" meerkat and from there discovered the technique on their own.