Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Pretty much every animal lover has ideas about meerkats after growing up watching The Lion King. It’s pretty likely that we all ...

Three of the newborn meerkat pups. Photo credit to San Diego Zoo Wildlife Alliance. Four baby meerkats have joined the San Diego Zoo with the first birth of the tiny members of the mongoose family in ...

The Kalahari Meerkat Project is the longest running project operating under the Kalahari Research Centre. The research team is focused on understanding the evolution of cooperative behavior within the ...

A young meerkat found alone in the Northern Cape is getting a second chance through a rewilding programme at Shamwari Private Game Reserve.

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, ...

The Erie Zoo's last two meerkats, Malika and Nora, were euthanized due to age-related illnesses, including liver cancer. Meerkats in captivity typically live 10 to 14 years, and the zoo provides grief ...

Meerkats genetically adapt to a species-specific form of tuberculosis according to a long-term study by an international research team led by Ulm University. The scientists also found that climate ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The last two meerkats at the Erie Zoo have been euthanized after being diagnosed with liver cancer and other diseases. Both Malika ...