Three of the newborn meerkat pups. Photo credit to San Diego Zoo Wildlife Alliance. Four baby meerkats have joined the San Diego Zoo with the first birth of the tiny members of the mongoose family in ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

The Erie Zoo's last two meerkats, Malika and Nora, were euthanized due to age-related illnesses, including liver cancer. Meerkats in captivity typically live 10 to 14 years, and the zoo provides grief ...

As a corner of Africa heats up, new research shows how the future of the species rests with powerful matriarchs making tough choices for survival. Meerkats return to their burrow at South Africa’s ...

BOISE, Idaho — Now that Thanksgiving and Black Friday have passed, next is Cyber Monday and more importantly, Giving Tuesday, or Giving Zoo Day. Zoo Boise is looking for community members to consider ...

Meerkats are known for their close-knit family groups, but one of their most fascinating traits is how adults actively teach ...