Meerkats love hard-boiled eggs. This was the chance discovery that allowed Professor Tim Clutton-Brock unprecedented access to a society of wild meerkats, and the key that unlocked a thirty year ...

Raising children can be a tough job, especially when doing it alone, but some animals like meerkats and mongooses work together to raise their young. Studies of these cooperative creatures are ...

The darker side of meerkats -- which sees them prevent their daughters from breeding, and kill their grandchildren -- is explained in a new study. Research into the desert creatures -- which live in ...

JOHANNESBURG — One of the most captivating sights of African wildlife is that of dark-eyed meerkats standing side by side on their hind legs, as though posing for a group photograph. They look cuddly ...