BROOKFIELD, Ill. (CBS) -- The newest residents of Brookfield Zoo are stealing the show. Three baby meerkats born in October have made their big debut at the Desert's Edge exhibit at the zoo. They are ...

Eight baby meerkats joined the family at the Point Defiance Zoo & Aquarium this spring, bringing the total number of meerkats at the zoo to 15. Meerkat mothers Keeya and Naledi each gave birth to four ...

SAN DIEGO — For the first time in six years, baby meerkats are playing at the San Diego Zoo. Shaka, the zoo's matriarch meerkat, gave birth to four pups who are now viewable to the public at the ...

MADISON, Wis. -- The Henry Vilas Zoo introduced some new additions on Thursday. Four meerkat pups were born last month to mom, Poppy, a zoo spokesperson said. This is Poppy's second litter within the ...

OAKLAND, Calif. - The meerkat mob at the Oakland Zoo just got bigger. One of the zoo's slender-tailed meerkats, named Sandy, recently gave birth to a litter with five pups, the zoo said Wednesday. A ...

As a corner of Africa heats up, new research shows how the future of the species rests with powerful matriarchs making tough ...

Charlie the meerkat was the weakest of four siblings, so his parents abandoned him after deciding they had enough kids. Luckily he’s found a new, less exclusive family at Britain’s Chessington Zoo.

Washington state teems with curious plants and creatures making headlines. At Point Defiance Zoo, visitors can spot a rare blooming artichoke agave and meet a newborn Malayan tapir that sports ...

It's rare that the words “good news” and “Oakland” share the same headline, and when it does, it's usually at San Francisco's expense. But among all the murdering and lock picking that goes on in ...