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Photos from Longleat’s meerkat enclosure show the safari park’s resident mob joining in the festive spirit, ducking into a ...

EXCLUSIVE: Warner Bros. Pictures Animation is heading to the Discovery vault to adapt their Animal Planet series, Meerkat Manor, into a feature animated movie.Think Happy Feet.That George Miller ...

And with some decorated tractors and merry meerkats, there was a lot of Christmas cheer. Here's a selection of some joyful pictures from around Wiltshire. Festive Cheer: Swindon Town were in ...

We asked our readers to send in their best pictures on the theme of "in the ... Jasmine Swindail: "I took a picture at a zoo of a meerkat with sky behind it, as it made the meerkat seem high ...

Meerkats have incredibly complex behaviour, which can also be very surprising Maybe some of the appeal, apart from the incredibly cute babies, is the fact that – like us – they are social ...

That’s essentially the cooperative breeding system of meerkat groups, in which one dominant male and female monopolize the mating and pup-bearing. What helps that female keep her coveted position?