Meerkats are cooperative breeders that live in social groups. A dominant female monopolizes most of the reproduction, while subordinate helpers assist in raising her offspring. Disclaimer ...

Meerkats are cooperative breeders. This is commonly a species where there is only one breeding male and one breeding female in each group. There is also “a pile” of what is usually their ...

As subordinates mature, males often leave the group. Females can stay ... fed a boiled egg a day to one set of meerkat females but not their littermates. They trained both sets to climb onto ...

In fact, the more one studies them, the more complex their behaviour appears. Prof Tim Clutton-Brock at the University of Cambridge and his team spent years observing Meerkat groups in the ...

The pair had both experienced "significant" declines in health due to their age ... are working with the Slender-tailed Meerkat Species Survival Plan group to bring some in the future.