 After Flower's death, the Zappa tried to commandeer a burrow that the Whiskers had just moved in, but the Zappa were again defeated and chased off.While there is a group named the "Zappa" within the Kalahari Meerkat Project, the Zappa shown in "Meerkat Manor" are primarily filmed using footage from a second research group called the Young Ones.However, scenes of the dominant couple are from the real Zappa group, as are the stories told about the group as a whole.