GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. — It’s all about meerkats at John Ball Zoo (JBZ) this weekend! Meerkat Mania is a three-day celebration demonstrating the zoo’s conservation and sustainability efforts at the ...

The sudden deaths of all five meerkats at the Philadelphia Zoo this month were apparently caused by an accidental poisoning linked to a dye that is used to mark the animals, zoo officials said, but an ...

Officials at the Philadelphia Zoo are working with the U.S. Department of Agriculture to solve the mysterious deaths of all five of the zoo's meerkats. In less than a month, the five meerkats — Nkosi, ...

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. — The whole family can celebrate the holiday weekend at John Ball Zoo for Meerkat Mania. Not to be confused with the Prairie Dog, Meerkats live in a completely different ...

Pretty much every animal lover has ideas about meerkats after growing up watching The Lion King. It’s pretty likely that we all think of hakuna matata and a warthog when we think of meerkats. But why ...

The Philadelphia Zoo's five meerkats all died this month, prompting an investigation into what caused the sudden deaths. And zoo officials suspect an animal dye keepers have used for years might be ...