University of Cambridge scientists have discovered that older meerkats teach pups how to obtain food by incrementally introducing dead, injured and then live prey. Although learning per se wouldn't be ...

Meerkats are known for their close-knit family groups, but one of their most fascinating traits is how adults actively teach ...

In many cooperative species, the dominant breeders live longest despite the wear-and-tear of leadership and reproduction. It has even been suggested these breeders hold the secret of immunity to ...

WASHINGTON – It’s hardly algebra or physics, but meerkats have been observed actively teaching their young, something not often seen in animals in the wild. While the young of many species learn by ...

If you've watched Disney's The Lion King, you must be familiar with the character Timon. Well, Timon is a meerkat. Meerkats, whose scientific name is Suricata suricatta, are small carnivores belonging ...

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 ...

Despite rapidly aging, dominant animals live longer because their underlings are driven out of the group -- becoming easy targets for predators. The secret of a long meerkat life is to be 'ruler of ...