Pretty much every animal lover has ideas about meerkats after growing up watching The Lion King. It’s pretty likely that we all think of hakuna matata and a warthog when we think of meerkats. But why ...

Meerkats at the Memphis Zoo get up close with Jack-O'-Lanterns this Halloween season. The furry animals are seen playing around a variety of pumpkin carvings.

Meerkat pups start to play as soon as they can totter about the burrow. On stubby legs they crawl over one another, gnawing on any protruding ear, limb or nose. Within a week, the little guys are play ...