One such animal that adopts this positioning is the meerkat. This cute, bite-sized member of the mongoose family resides in ...

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 ...

Now, researchers believe they know why the animals — members of the mongoose family found throughout southern Africa — have such bloodthirsty streaks. Dominant female meerkats display a unique ...

A member of the mongoose family, meerkats — also known as suricates — are active carnivores that live in burrows in Africa. The five were brought to the Philadelphia Zoo as a group of siblings ...

Meerkats live in dry areas such as the Namib and Kalahari deserts in Africa, and prefer sandy or even stony ground. They avoid forests, mountains, and true deserts, the zoo noted. A true desert ...