Despite what its name may suggest, a meerkat is not a member of the cat family. Meerkats are weasel-like animals that are members of the mongoose family. The mongoose family Herpestidae includes small ...

A Chicago zoo has added a second mob of meerkats to its list of residents. This small mammal was made famous in the early 1990s by Timon in “The Lion King.” Like the beloved animated character, ...

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It doesn’t take much to make a mob of meerkats happy. Give the little scamps some cockroaches, a mound of dirt, a heat lamp and call it good. That’s the order of a frigid January day that finds ...

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 ...

In the animal kingdom, creatures that rely on four legs to move around (called quadrupeds) exhibit some interesting behavior.

The brindled bodies of six meerkats gathered around a man-made titanium tree trunk in their habitat at the Cincinnati Zoo & Botanical Garden. It was their midmorning feed. And they knew it. Jenna ...