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 ...

Think meerkats are just cute little desert fluffballs? Think again. These tiny troublemakers are basically the stand-up comedians of the animal kingdom. For sure, they don’t hold anything back. As a ...

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 regulate ...

New research has found that social interactions among meerkats may be crucial to their health and survival—thanks to the sharing of beneficial gut bacteria. Microbiomes provide many health-related ...

Parents make sacrifices to allow their children to have better lives than they did, but this isn't the case for Kalahari meerkat mothers, according to a new study. Parents make sacrifices to allow ...

Special meerkat behavior caught on camera. Donald Trump faces articles of impeachment before Christmas Community outraged after Chicago mom, son brutally attacked by mob of elementary-aged bullies ...

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, ...