Mankats are meerkats that appear in an alternate future starring the two Lion King fancharacters, Damy and Deirdre. They have evolved to behave and live like human beings.
The exact date of their creation is unknown, but was presumably between 2004 and 2006. They've made no official online appearance.
Correlating ending
Mankats only appear in the "Frozen Ending" of Damy and Deirdre's story.
"Damy and Deirdre are being chased by the angry mob from the original ending, but manage to escape and hide inside his house. While the crowd is drawing near, he comes to the conclusion they need to disappear and lay low until they're forgotten about.
Since Damy is immortal, he suggests Deirdre should freeze herself and promises to release her in the future. Though not looking forward to it, she lets him take her to the underground laboratory of a familiar scientist, who's forced to agree to Damy's request. Even so, Damy kills him after the controls of the machine are explained to him.
In the year 12.000, he returns to the laboratory and wakes Deirdre up in a more humanized world with meerkats. Damy explains that somewhere along the way a vampiremeerkat might've shared their knowledge with regular animals and helped them gain greater intelligence.
The One-Scratch-and-Spotted-Field no longer exists and is a city. Damy's house was destroyed by the mob years prior and the two have to try and find a different place and role for themselves in this world. "
Appearance
As they received the knowledge of vampiremeerkats, mankats have developed a sense of fashion and created architecture, vehicles, laws, cultures, money, etc. Compared to vampiremeerkats, they're more simplistic, but interestingly enough closer to a real human's way of living.
Because these meerkats wear clothes, they started losing fur on their chest and stomach over time, which is the only noticeable feature that truly distinguishes them from "normal" meerkats.
Trivia
- "Mankat" is merely a title given to evolved meerkats as to distinguish them from regular meerkats; mankats do not call each other "mankats".