Ann & Steve Toon / Black hairy thicktailed scorpion (Parabuthus villosus), Namib Desert, Namibia, April

Solvin Zankl / Desert scorpion {Parabuthus villosus} Namib desert, Namibia

Piotr Naskrecki / Scorpion (Parabuthus transvaalicus) female carrying young, Gorongosa National Park, Mozambique

Emanuele Biggi / Scorption (Parabuthus granulatus) under UV light, Namibia.

Ingo Arndt / Desert scorpion (Parabuthus sp) Southern Africa

Ingo Arndt / Nest of baby Scorpions (Parabuthus sp) South Africa

Ingo Arndt / Desert scorpion (Parabuthus sp) carrying young on back, Southern Africa

Jen Guyton / Meerkat pup (Suricata suricatta) chewing on a small Parabuthus scorpion. Adult meerkats will teach younger meerkats how to disarm a scorpion by biting off the stinger before eating it. Kalahari Desert...

Jen Guyton / Meerkat pup (Suricata suricatta) attempting to steal a scorpion (Parabuthus sp.) from its sibling, which was fed the scorpion by an adult. Kalahari Desert, South Africa.

Jen Guyton / Meerkat (Suricata suricatta) chewing on a scorpion (Parabuthus sp.), Kalahari Desert, South Africa.

Cyril Ruoso / Black scorpion (Parabuthus villosus) Dorob National Park, Namibia.

Cyril Ruoso / Scorpion (Parabuthus villosus) in desert, Dorob National Park, Namibia