Love the meerkat comparison.
I’ve always thought similarly about the little neck-craning thing that New York straphangers do when they lean over the edge of the subway platform to try to see if the train is coming. If you stand at the end of the platform near where the train enters and look down the length of the platform, you’ll often see passengers taking turns stepping to the edge of the platform and doing this exact maneuver, and it’s very meerkat-like. I wish I could find a good video.
