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 ...

When they can’t find these selections, they will eat fruit, plants, small reptiles, and bird eggs. Since meerkats are small, even delicate, they require the help of their companions to stay safe ...

Welcome to the Meerkat’s World of Competitive Eating. When vying for dominance, meerkats increase their food intake to bulk up and maintain their place on the social pecking order ...

What with the eating (cat chow, fruit and meal worms, yum), digging (260 holes, give or take), and sunbathing (so much sunbathing), life in the meerkat exhibit is a furry whirlwind of morning activ… ...

Meerkats mainly eat insects such as beetles, caterpillars, spiders, and scorpions. They use their sense of smell to sniff out their favourote food. ...

Meerkats eat scorpions, which is no easy feat. A live scorpion is very dangerous. What's interesting is the process by which the parents teach their pups to eat one.

CAMBRIDGE (WCMH)–Tell Timon to bulk up–A new study shows that meerkats try to outgrow their rivals and become the dominant members of their groups. According to National Geographic, meerkats ...

Meerkats eat to compete in survival of fattest. Size is likely to determine who gets to breed in meerkat clans, so rival females, in line for the throne, watch each other's weight and eat to keep up.

Dominant females will eat the young of other meerkats to ensure that only their own descendants survive. They may also exile offending subordinates from the colony, forcing them out on their own ...

In the animal kingdom, creatures that rely on four legs to move around (called quadrupeds) exhibit some interesting behavior. During key moments, quadrupeds stand up on their hind legs and use ...