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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...