Meerkats are natural teachers—one of the few animals other than people so far shown to have the knack, say researchers. Older hunters gradually introduce pups to the art of eating dinner before it ...

Meerkats actively teach their young how to catch and eat their prey, UK researchers say in a study that is one of the first to show such complex animal behaviour. While animals are known to learn from ...

Attention all meerkat pups: Scorpion hunting 101 is now in session. Instead of letting their young figure out how to hunt dangerous scorpions on their own, older meerkats collect and disable the prey ...

Teachers look away now: animal behavioural studies are blurring the boundaries between humans and animals, and challenging the idea that teaching is built on intelligence. “People used to think of ...

With Twitter’s much more polished live-streaming app Periscope now on the market, Meerkat needs to strengthen its own social graph to keep users from straying to its new competitor. So today Meerkat ...

The astonishing collar-camera footage reveals newborn Kalahari Meerkats below ground for the first time, unveils the hunting skills of Magellanic penguins in Argentina, and follows the treetop ...

In the 1980s a single humpback whale in the Gulf of Maine developed the “lobtail feeding method”. This unique hunting method of slapping the water’s surface appears to drive fish into dense schools, ...