Meerkat mums typically have 4 pups in a litter. But Maghogho’s family had 7. Very unusually Maghogho had allowed her sister to give birth at the same time as her. The result was that none of the ...

Each meerkat weighs about one ounce at birth. They come into the world mostly hairless, with their eyes and ears shut. Those eyes open up after about two weeks, which is when the pups begin ...