The Whiskers family matriarch whips her daughter's tail when the rebellious female gets pregnant. Half-grown meerkats take their baby brother away from the burrow and forget him. Brave son Shakespeare ...

One of the most popular documentary series in Animal Planet’s history is getting a feature film adaptation. The title in question is Meerkat Manor, which followed a family of meerkats in South ...

Three meerkats were born at the Smithsonian’s National Zoo in D.C. earlier this month, an event the zoo hasn’t seen for 16 years. When keepers at the zoo’s Small Mammal House came into work on May 10, ...

The staff members at SPCA of Wake County (SPCAWC) are used to taking in unique-looking dogs of all sizes and ages. But one new resident turned everyone’s heads when he arrived in early October, ...

The LA Zoo is now home to two groups, or mobs, of Meerkats, who are native to southern Africa. Two reside in the cute-as-ever Winnick Family Children’s Zoo and four just arrived from the North ...

EDITOR'S NOTE: This column discusses a major turn of events in this week's episode of "Meerkat Manor," airing Friday at 8:30 p.m. on Animal Planet. Although it does not go into specifics, if you don't ...

Listen to more stories on the Noa app. At the start of the spring of 2015, Jeffrey, a three-year-old meerkat, was happily eating, tussling with his brothers, and surveying zoo patrons from his usual ...