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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 ...

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 ...

This very special animal lover has made it his life's work to care for orphaned wild critters and give them a second chance ...

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 ...

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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 ...

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 ...

Meerkat sentries protect the group by keeping a watch out for potential predators. A female sentry spots a cobra and tries to run it off. Little does she know, the ‘cobra’ is actually a sophisticated ...

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 ...