In the wild, meerkats primarily eat insects, such as grubs and termites. Here, we feed them a carnivore meat mix, kibbles, apples root vegetables, mealworms, crickets and earthworms.

Meerkats are small, big-eyed, highly social mongooses who live in South Africa in packs ranging from two to more than 30 individuals in which complex social networks and social hierarchies ...

Meerkat chit-chat Date: May 20, 2024 Source: University of Konstanz Summary: Researchers unravel the vocal interactions of meerkat groups and show they use two different types of interactions to ...

Animals With Cameras - Meerkat In the Kalahari Desert the team put cameras on wild meerkats for the first time, allowing scientists to finally understand what these miniature mammals are up to ...

"By studying wild meerkats, we can explore how real-world conditions -- factors like social status, hormones, and environmental stressors -- interact to influence immune function." Smyth-Kabay said.

“By studying wild meerkats, we can explore how real-world conditions -- factors like social status, hormones, and environmental stressors -- interact to influence immune function.” ...

Remember Timon from the Lion King? Well, meet the real Timon....he's a meerkat and they are one of the most popular animals at the Natural Science Center!

Meerkats may look cute, but the dominant females are notoriously deadly and will kill female relatives and eat their offspring to suppress reproduction and eliminate future competition. Now ...

Standing upright on his hind legs and gazing vigilantly out of a window, a rescued meerkat has become an unexpected symbol of ...

Meerkats, Suricata suricatta, are an excellent species to compare the social networks of wild and captive groups. We replicated the methods of Madden et al. (2009, 2011), who studied eight groups ...