A family of brave meerkats pull together to save their newborn pups - after their burrow was invaded by a deadly snake. The venomous puff adder was spotted invading the home where the five newborns ...

AN unlikely catchphrase from the hit meerkats TV adverts could soon be listed in the Oxford Dictionary. The slogan "Simples" from the Meerkat TV ad has been named one of the words or phrases of the ...

Quick recap: Meerkat is a live video-streaming app for iOS that allows you to share what’s going on around you. Streams can’t be watched once they’re over – this is ‘ephemeral’ video. However, the ...

The bigger the brain, the smarter the animal. It’s a theory that has often been dismissed as an oversimplification – but now some scientists are suggesting it may be the case. A new study has ranked ...

Meerkats already look like a textbook case of a cooperative social animal. They live in groups of up to 50 individuals. All of them help to dig and guard the community’s burrows. They babysit, feed ...

Meerkat and Periscope are two apps with a similar purpose: To let you broadcast live video over the web for anyone who wants to tune in. But what if your circle of friends aren’t live streaming ...