Christmas arrived early at Taronga Zoo Sydney, with its residents treated to festive displays and snacks.Footage sent to ...

As a corner of Africa heats up, new research shows how the future of the species rests with powerful matriarchs making tough ...

With their whiskered faces and high-pitched calls, meerkats don’t appear particularly menacing. But, female meerkats are, in fact, capable of vicious behavior, including harassing rivals, exiling them ...

On cool mornings, meerkats love to cuddle together. I watched a dozen pups snuggle near the burrow entrance, turning into a moving pile of ears, tails, and paws. Every so often, a sleepy face would ...

Think meerkats are just cute little desert fluffballs? Think again. These tiny troublemakers are basically the stand-up ...

The ZSL London Zoo gave their resident meerkats an advent calendar packed with crickets as a holiday gift Kelli Bender is the Pets Editor at PEOPLE. She has been working at PEOPLE since 2013. Her work ...

SAN FRANCISCO (KGO) -- There was Easter excitement abound today at the San Francisco Zoo. The video posted above shows meerkats on an elaborate egg hunt. RELATED: SPCA recommends gifting Peeps instead ...

The monogamy rate in humans may be higher than you expected... but we do it in a strange way compared to other animals.

Learn more about mammal monogamy rates, which support the theory that the primary mating pattern in Homo sapiens is monogamy.

The sudden deaths of all five meerkats at the Philadelphia Zoo this month were apparently caused by an accidental poisoning linked to a dye that is used to mark the animals, zoo officials said, but an ...

The Philadelphia Zoo's five meerkats all died this month, prompting an investigation into what caused the sudden deaths. And zoo officials suspect an animal dye keepers have used for years might be ...

A University of Cambridge study reveals that humans are more monogamous than most mammals, ranking between meerkats and beavers.