On cool mornings, meerkats love to cuddle together. I watched a dozen pups snuggle near the burrow entrance, turning into a moving pile of ears, tails, and paws. Every so often, a sleepy face would ...

A family of brave meerkats pull together to save their newborn pups - after their burrow was invaded by a deadly snake. The venomous puff adder was spotted invading the home where the five newborns ...

AN unlikely catchphrase from the hit meerkats TV adverts could soon be listed in the Oxford Dictionary. The slogan "Simples" from the Meerkat TV ad has been named one of the words or phrases of the ...

If you pay attention to iPhone or Android apps, you've probably heard of Periscope and Meerkat. These two video services have brought livestreaming video to the forefront on mobile devices. And ...

The bigger the brain, the smarter the animal. It’s a theory that has often been dismissed as an oversimplification – but now some scientists are suggesting it may be the case. A new study has ranked ...

Meerkats already look like a textbook case of a cooperative social animal. They live in groups of up to 50 individuals. All of them help to dig and guard the community’s burrows. They babysit, feed ...