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. During key moments, quadrupeds stand up on their hind legs and use their ...

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 ...

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, ...

A super auntie meerkat named Cameron loves to babysit cute mongoose babies for the mongoose family in Namibia. Meerkats, like banded mongoose, are highly social animals, and their survival depends on ...

Cincinnati Zoo's meerkats got a surprise from an unusual visitor, and their reaction was hilarious.The zoo posted the hilarious encounter to its Facebook page."The meerkats were very interested in ...

An international team of astronomers have found a new and unknown object in the Milky Way that is heavier than the heaviest neutron stars known and yet simultaneously lighter than the lightest black ...