Meerkats are teachers Meerkats are teachers mongabay.com July 13, 2006 A team of scientists from Cambridge University has found that adult meerkats directly teach their young how to obtain food.

Meerkats actively teach their young how to catch and eat their prey, ... that the 'teacher' gets no benefit from its actions and in fact may lose opportunities to forage itself, ...

Why animal teachers are so rare—and remarkable. Biologists have a definition for teaching that very few animals actually meet, such as orcas and meerkats.

Video: Meerkats attend scorpion-hunting kindergarten Teachers look away now: animal behavioural studies are blurring the boundaries between humans and animals, and challenging the idea that ...

Meerkat pups do not learn how to eat dangerous animals such as scorpions on their own but are taught by adults, scientists have discovered. Researchers found that adults bring dead animals to the ...

Helper meerkat with thirty-day-old pups. (Image credit: Andrew Radford/Sophie Lanfear/Alex Thornton/Katherine McAuliffe) Attention all meerkat pups: Scorpion hunting 101 is now in session.

Meerkats work great as a team and have different responsibilities. At least one meerkat will find a high point, perch on its back legs and be on lookout for any predators - this is known as a ...

Listen to more stories on the Noa app. At the start of the spring of 2015, Jeffrey, a three-year-old meerkat, was happily eating, tussling with his brothers, and surveying zoo patrons from his ...

The meerkats, two males named Ari and Kgala and three females named Lula, Nkosi and Nya, were siblings and arrived at the zoo in 2013, said Rachel Metz, the zoo’s vice president of animal well ...