In this heartwarming video, a wildlife photographer finds himself in an adorable predicament as a group of meerkats takes a ...

With their whiskered faces and high-pitched calls, meerkats don’t appear particularly menacing. But, female meerkats are, in fact, capable of vicious behavior, including harassing rivals, exiling them ...

White men feel something 'much deeper' has changed that's 'fundamentally illiberal': Writer Mayor says 'John' should get $50K FBI award for tip that led to Brown shooter People have one important ...

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 ...

Parents make sacrifices to allow their children to have better lives than they did, but this isn't the case for Kalahari meerkat mothers, according to a new study. Parents make sacrifices to allow ...

Meerkats are adorable members of the mongoose family, inhabiting deserts and grasslands of southern Africa. They are known for their expressive faces and tendency to stand straight up on their hind ...

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 ...

The Kalahari Meerkat Project is the longest running project operating under the Kalahari Research Centre. The research team is focused on understanding the evolution of cooperative behavior within the ...

DURHAM, N.C. – Cooperation and aggression. Meerkats are showing us that one may not be possible without the other. In a study appearing this week in the journal Nature Communications, a team of ...

SAN DIEGO (CNS) - 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 ...

In meerkat society a dominant female is in charge, growling, biting, pushing and shoving to keep others in line. The matriarch's bullying behavior is fueled by high levels of testosterone that can ...