It's fostered scientific collaboration. It is also nurturing local talent. MeerKAT, which is among South Africa's largest scientific infrastructure projects of the 30 year period since democracy ...

In addition, the MeerKAT team have supported the development of science and technology in Africa and stress-tested technology for the Square Kilometre Array. MeerKAT is a radio telescope consisting of ...

Harnessing the extraordinary capabilities of South Africa’s world-renowned MeerKAT radio telescope, compelling evidence has been discovered for a low-frequency gravitational wave background.

Prof Tim Clutton-Brock at the University of Cambridge and his team spent years observing Meerkat groups in the northern Cape of South Africa, starting all the way back in the 1990s, and almost ...

Tasmania Zoo has welcomed a new litter of six meerkat pups this summer. The Zoo’s experienced meerkat parents gave birth to ...

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?

Researchers have been studying various groups of meerkats in the wild for almost 25 years in South Africa. For more than three of those years, they followed 14 groups of close competitors and ...

Meerkats are cooperative breeders. This is commonly a species where there is only one breeding male and one breeding female in each group. There is also “a pile” of what is usually their ...

All five meerkats at Philadelpha Zoo have died within ... The small members of the mongoose family from southern Africa all became sick and died within less than a month. Named Nkosi, Lula ...

A round-up of pictures from around the county this week. Asiatic lions and meerkats at the zoo in central London receive a taste of Halloween with their own pumpkins. The four meerkat pups have ...