The white-handed gibbon comes closest to humans in the study, with a monogamy rate of 63.5%. It’s the only other top-ranked ...

COLUMN. British anthropologist Mark Dyble analyzed genetic data from 70 mammalian species to gain a deeper understanding of ...

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, ...

With their whiskered faces and high-pitched calls, meerkats don’t appear particularly menacing. But, female meerkats are, in fact, capable of vicious behavior, including harassing rivals, exiling them ...

In this heartwarming video, a wildlife photographer finds himself in an adorable predicament as a group of meerkats takes a ...

A new study finds how monogamous humans are in the mammal family. In a list ranking the monogamy of mammals, humans stood at ...

JOHANNESBURG — One of the most captivating sights of African wildlife is that of dark-eyed meerkats standing side-by-side on their hind legs, as though posing for a group photograph. They look cuddly ...

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 ...

Wild meerkats living in the Kalahari Desert in Southern Africa recognize group members from their calls, behavior researchers have established for the first time. The researchers assume that meerkats ...

SAN FRANCISCO (KGO) -- There was Easter excitement abound today at the San Francisco Zoo. The video posted above shows meerkats on an elaborate egg hunt. RELATED: SPCA recommends gifting Peeps instead ...

The ZSL London Zoo gave their resident meerkats an advent calendar packed with crickets as a holiday gift Kelli Bender is the Pets Editor at PEOPLE. She has been working at PEOPLE since 2013. Her work ...