Meerkats are extremely social with one another ... time in the wild with our closest related species, and for a magical Africa, this place was worth the long haul to get here.

MeerKAT is Afrikaans, meaning "more KAT", but is also the name of an endearing little mongoose-like mammal that is indigenous to the Northern Cape and other Southern African regions. The 63 others ...

Meerkats are small, big-eyed, highly social mongooses who live in South Africa in packs ranging from two to more than 30 individuals in which complex social networks and social hierarchies ...

Yes, news of those comparison website adverts - you know the ones, with a meerkat called Aleksandr looking resplendent in a smoking jacket - has even reached southern Africa. I was in the ...

In South Africa’s biggest national park, a camouflaged system of radars, cameras and sensors stands guard. The solar-powered technology is helping to protect Kruger National Park’s rhinos from ...

For example, South African colleagues have developed hardware to combine all the telescopes' data. It is now used more or less in this form in many other telescopes around the world, for example in ...

What it is, is the clearest-yet image of the centre of the Milky Way, which is a good 25,000 light years from the Karoo, in the heartland of South Africa, from where the MeerKAT radio telescope ...