Meerkats are carnivores. Their diet consists mostly of insects. They dig in the ground to find their prey of insects, as well as siders, snails, rodents, eggs, lizards and scorpions. They use ...

Though they are considered carnivores, meerkats eat more than just meat. Their diet includes lizards, birds, bugs and fruit, according to the National Geographic. They also like to treat ...

As they do, they meet strangers. Meerkats can't afford to spent much time gawking. They're on a high energy diet. Out here, beyond the water's end, they find that in juicy, fat grubs. The family ...

For the first time in six years, baby meerkats can be seen at the San Diego Zoo — popping out of dirt tunnels, scampering over rocks and under bushes and standing upright on their hind legs.

Meerkat pups do not learn how to eat dangerous animals such as scorpions on their own but are taught by adults, scientists have discovered. Researchers found that adults bring dead animals to the ...

Three meerkats were born at the Smithsonian’s National Zoo in D.C. earlier this month, an event the zoo hasn’t seen for 16 years. When keepers at the zoo’s Small Mammal House came into work ...