Their look is characterized by brown-striped fur, small, pointed faces, and large eyes. A heavily social animal, the meerkat lives in matriarchal family units ranging between 3-50 residents.

Meerkats have incredibly complex behaviour ... and are also often small in number, with less eyes to look after the pups and look out for danger. Maghogho’s group were on the edge of survival ...

South African MeerKAT radio telescope, an array of 64 antennas in the Meerkat National Park in the country's Northern Cape. A giant galaxy measuring 3.3 million light-years across has been found ...