One such animal that adopts this positioning is the meerkat. This cute, bite-sized member of the mongoose family resides in the grasslands and deserts of southern Africa. Their look is ...

Chicago's Lincoln Park Zoo is welcoming three new meerkats. Clover, Violet, and Dahlia are just 1.5 years old and were born ...

That’s essentially the cooperative breeding system of meerkat groups, in which one dominant male and female monopolize the mating and pup-bearing. What helps that female keep her coveted position?

This digging is called foraging. What do meerkats eat? Meerkats are omnivores which means they eat plants and animals. Meerkats mainly eat insects such as beetles, caterpillars, spiders ...

Cockroaches are calorie rich for meerkats (Picture ... when your ex-in-cockroach-form is devoured by one of the zoo’s animals. The premium package comes in at only 150 Polish złoty (£30).

Some animals are capable of cooperating with members of other species. An interdisciplinary team involving the biologist Eduardo Sampaio from the University of Konstanz explores the cognitive ...

Belfast Zoo has welcomed the arrival of four new meerkats. Visitors have this week been able to spot the animals after they were moved into a new habitat at the north Belfast visitor attraction on ...

Meerkats are incredibly social animals, and you can always spot at least one of them standing guard and keeping a lookout for predators. They live in cooperative packs, called a mob, of up to ...