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Meerkats are known for their close-knit family groups, but one of their most fascinating traits is how adults actively teach ...

University of Cambridge scientists have discovered that older meerkats teach pups how to obtain food by incrementally introducing dead, injured and then live prey. University of Cambridge scientists ...

The monogamy rate in humans may be higher than you expected... but we do it in a strange way compared to other animals.

Meerkats seek high vantage points, like this wildlife photographer, to search for predators and food. Of all the wild animals he has photographed, Will Burrard-Lucas has never encountered a species ...

SAN DIEGO — Four meerkat pups have emerged from their den and are now available for viewing by visitors to the San Diego Zoo. Zoo staffers were aware that the mother, Debbie, was pregnant, and last ...

Think meerkats are just cute little desert fluffballs? Think again. These tiny troublemakers are basically the stand-up ...

Researchers have been studying various groups of meerkats in the wild for almost 25 years in South Africa. For more than three of those years, they followed 14 groups of close competitors and ...

Meerkats are small, big-eyed, highly social mongooses who live in South Africa in packs ranging from two to more than 30 individuals in which complex social networks and social hierarchies regulate ...

University of Cambridge scientists have discovered that older meerkats teach pups how to obtain food by incrementally introducing dead, injured and then live prey. Although learning per se wouldn't be ...