Visitors at Lincoln Park Zoo can often spot the meerkat on sentinel duty because they’ll be standing on their hind legs atop one of the tall mounds in their habitat. The mob rotates sentinel duty ...

A video shared by the zoo shows the pups cuddling around their mother Sandy or burrowing through the ground. Sandy gave birth ...

What is the name for a group of meerkats? A group of meerkats is called a mob. Each morning the mob emerges from the burrow and begins looking for food. Meerkats have rival mobs and have to keep ...

Kaohsiung’s Shoushan Zoo is to welcome a new American bison and group of 11 meerkats to its ranks, which are to be featured ...

They will live separately from the zoo's existing mob in their habitat at Regenstein African Journey. Lincoln Park Zoo officials said visitors can spot the meerkat standing on its hind legs ...

“The zoo has been keeping and breeding meerkats for many years and we are especially looking forward to seeing the mob expand to numbers that would be similar to a wild setting.” The new ...

They can live up to 200 years. A mob of 20 busy meerkats greets visitors from a dry, sandy environment made to look like their home on the African savannah. They have a sandpit to dig in and ...

NORFOLK, Va. — Amadi and Hardi, two of the Virginia Zoo's slender-tailed meerkats that have been in Norfolk for a decade and were "extremely bonded", were humanely euthanized last week due to ...

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 ...

Getty The Philadelphia Zoo is mourning the loss of five of its beloved residents. A group of meerkats — named Lula, Nkosi, Nya, Kgala, and Ari — died suddenly at the zoo last week from ...

NORFOLK, Va. (WAVY) — The Virginia Zoo announced the death of two senior slender-tailed meerkats, who were humanely euthanized Wednesday due to age-related illnesses. Amadi (13) and Hardy (12 ...