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Wild meerkats living in the Kalahari Desert in Southern Africa recognize group members from their calls, behavior researchers have established for the first time. The researchers assume that meerkats ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Meerkats may look cute, but the dominant females are notoriously deadly and will kill female relatives and eat their offspring to suppress reproduction and eliminate future competition. Now, ...

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 ...