NASHVILLE, Tenn. — A mob of meerkats at Tennessee’s Nashville Zoo took time to bask in the morning sunlight as the zoo marked World Meerkat Day on Wednesday, July 3.

Three meerkats were born at the Smithsonian’s National Zoo in D.C. on May 10 for the first time in 16 years.

In meerkats, females are the fiercely competitive sex. Members of the mongoose family found in the arid savannahs of southern Africa, most meerkat mobs have a dominant female at the head. Now, a new ...

It can’t be easy to weigh a meerkat, but boy, does it look like fun. By Claire Moses Reporting from London The London Zoo, which has more than 14,000 animals, conducted its annual weigh-in this ...