The meerkat family at Oakland Zoo has grown, and visitors recently witnessed the pups venturing outside their tunnels, ...

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 ...

But meerkats were just the beginning ... koalas and feeding kangaroos- it’s a place where conservation comes to life. Through ...

"Well now I'm upset cause I'm never going to get to tickle a meerkat's tummy. Life is so unfair," wrote one commenter. "Why do they sit like this? I went to a zoo recently and they were doing the ...

Why it's so special: The Milky Way often appears as a reddish, pinkish and bluish-white arc across the night sky, but this new super-long exposure image from South Africa's ground-based MeerKAT ...

Research based on a 2023 image of the Sagittarius C stellar nursery, taken by NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope, has ...

OAKLAND, Calif. - The meerkat mob at the Oakland Zoo just got bigger. One of the zoo's slender-tailed meerkats, named Sandy, ...

However, three of the meerkats died within 36 hours despite the life-saving efforts. The last one, Shearer said, initially showed signs of recovery but died Monday night after spending more than a ...

who have undertaken long-term studies on wild meerkat populations in South Africa. In filming Life Story we have tried to take the camera into the animals’ world, wherever possible, in order to ...

It seems barely conceivable that we could moan anymore about the weather - but in the world of meerkats, April showers is just another excuse to whip out your multi-coloured umbrella. This ...

A Chicago zoo has added a second mob of meerkats to its list of residents. This small mammal was made famous in the early 1990s by Timon in “The Lion King.” Like the beloved animated character ...