While meerkats set out looking for food, their companions form a standing group. Typically, the guarding meerkats will perch on a high vantage point, stand on their hind legs, and scan the ...

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 ...

Their burrows can be 5 metres long with different entrances and tunnels leading to separate rooms. Do meerkats live in groups? Meerkats are very social animals and live in large groups of up to ...

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 ...

'However, in terms of what it achieves, it is a means to show the numerical, and maybe physical, strength of the group to a rival.' Meerkat clans perform a 'war dance' to frighten opponents and ...

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 ...

To find out if the moms' sky-high hormones during pregnancy were to blame, they also looked at a group of meerkat pups whose dominant mothers had received a medication during their third trimester ...