Meerkats aren’t just cute meme stars, they’re fascinating creatures with complex social lives, survival tactics, and desert smarts. Here are 7 surprising facts you didn’t know. We've all seen this ...

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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 ...

SAN DIEGO — For the first time in six years, baby meerkats are playing at the San Diego Zoo. Shaka, the zoo's matriarch meerkat, gave birth to four pups who are now viewable to the public at the ...

For starters, they’re wildly social, living in "mobs" of up to 50, where everyone pitches in to raise the babies, babysit, ...