Getty The Philadelphia Zoo is mourning the loss of five of its beloved residents. A group of meerkats — named Lula, Nkosi, Nya, Kgala, and Ari — died suddenly at the zoo last week from ...

University of Cambridge professor Tim Clutton-Brock has studied some 100 meerkat groups. By means of age, weight, and aggressiveness, a male and a female become each group’s dominants and breeders.

Amadi and Hardi, two of the Virginia Zoo's slender-tailed meerkats that have been in Norfolk for a decade and were "extremely ...

Meanwhile, a group of meerkats at Comrie Park could also be seen standing up to smell the roses - which were taller than them. The post Lemurs and meerkats enjoy roses for Valentine’s Day ...

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.

Visitors at Lincoln Park Zoo can often spot the meerkat on sentinel duty because they’ll be standing on their hind legs atop one of the tall mounds in their habitat. The mob rotates sentinel duty ...

Meerkats are cooperative breeders. This is commonly a species where there is only one breeding male and one breeding female in each group. There is also “a pile” of what is usually their ...

Kaohsiung’s Shoushan Zoo is to welcome a new American bison and group of 11 meerkats to its ranks, which are to be featured ...

The species comes from the Seychelles, a group of islands off Africa where they are the largest animals in the country. They can live up to 200 years. A mob of 20 busy meerkats greets visitors ...