GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. — The whole family can celebrate the holiday weekend at John Ball Zoo for Meerkat Mania. Not to be confused with the Prairie Dog, Meerkats live in a completely different ...

EXCLUSIVE: Warner Bros Pictures Animation is heading to the Discovery vault to adapt its Animal Planet series Meerkat Manor into an animated feature. Think Happy Feet: That George Miller-hatched ...

Three meerkats were born at the Smithsonian’s National Zoo in D.C. earlier this month, an event the zoo hasn’t seen for 16 years. When keepers at the zoo’s Small Mammal House came into work on May 10, ...

WASHINGTON — The Smithsonian National Zoo is celebrating the birth of three new meerkats. For the first time in 16 years, meerkat pups were born at the Small Mammal House on May 10. When keepers ...

(CNN) — Nine zoo animals were rescued, and one is dead after a fire broke out at the Metro Richmond Zoo Sunday night, the zoo said in a statement. The fire started around 9:50 p.m. in the zoo’s ...

Did you know that a group of meerkats is called a mob? San Diego Zoo thought it would be fun to introduce their meerkat mob, and they did it in the best way possible! The Zoo shared this video ...

MEMPHIS, Tenn. — Memphis Zoo is thrilled to announce four new additions to its meerkat mob. The meerkat pups were born on May 24th to parents Chip and Olivia. The meerkats are located across the from ...

Caged behind glass, a plump raccoon runs for a few seconds on an exercise wheel before flopping back down on the floor. In the next enclosure, a pair of prairie dogs perch on logs under the glaring ...

AKA: Meerkat is Dutch for "lake cat," but meerkats are not felines. They are members of the mongoose family. Diet: Omnivore. Favorite foods include insects, small mammals and reptiles, scorpions, and ...

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 regulate ...