But meerkats were just the beginning ... And if crocodiles weren’t enough, we held snakes, feeling the slow, deliberate ...

If the alarm call has been given for a snake, the meerkats will come together to scare off the attacker in a strategy known as “mobbing.” The group will aggressively move around the reptile ...

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 ...

Introduction • Key vocabulary: zoo, monkeys, camels, wolves, snakes, meerkats, parrots, kangaroos • Listen all around: Cat invites the listeners to guess the sounds and the location ...