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?
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 ...
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 ...