Researchers don’t have a strong sense of what healthy meerkat hearts look like in the wild, Rachel Johnston, a genomics expert at the Broad Institute and Zoo New England, who has been ...

Meerkats are small mammals who are members of the mongoose family. What do meerkats spend their time doing? Meerkats spend a lot of their day digging for food with their super sharp claws. This ...

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 ...

We’ve never been so thrilled to look like we’d just tumbled through the wild- covered in meerkat saliva, mud, and koala fur- ...

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?

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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In the wild, meerkats live in gangs numbering about 10 to 30 fully clawed up members. Despite the name, they are actually not cats, but are carnivores of the mongoose family. Don't mess with them.