One meerkat was doing some "housekeeping" at the expense of another in a recent funny video from a group's safari in Botswana ...

An Australian man gets harassed by a mob of meerkats in a funny video at a wildlife park. His dramatic reactions had people ...

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 staff members at SPCA of Wake County (SPCAWC) are used to taking in unique-looking dogs of all sizes and ages. But one ...

Using the MeerKAT telescope, an international team of astronomers have detected 30 new radio transient pulsars as part of the Meer(more) TRAnsients and Pulsars (MeerTRAP) project. The discovery was ...

A new study has revealed that the first kiss was shared over 21.5 million years ago. And it’s not just humans who love a ...

New research has found that social interactions among meerkats may be crucial to their health and survival—thanks to the sharing of beneficial gut bacteria. Microbiomes provide many health-related ...

Memphis Zoo meerkats play with pumpkin carvings Meerkats at the Memphis Zoo get up close with Jack-O'-Lanterns this Halloween season. The furry animals are seen playing around a variety of pumpkin ...

It's hardly algebra or physics, but meerkats have been observed actively teaching their young, something not often seen in wild animals. While the young of many species learn by observing older ...

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