University of Cambridge professor Tim Clutton-Brock has studied some 100 meerkat groups. By means of age, weight, and aggressiveness, a male and a female become each group’s dominants and breeders.
While meerkats set out looking for food, their companions form a standing group. Typically, the guarding meerkats will perch on a high vantage point, stand on their hind legs, and scan the ...
Shape of their ears and whiskers. Their behaviour... in the Dynasties meerkat group some were always leading and some trailing behind so that gave us a clue As you can see from this image ...
Using the MeerKAT telescope in South Africa ... It is assumed that they are ordinary pulsars that experience strong pulses. Now, a group of astronomers led by James D. Turner of the University ...
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Why Meerkats Stand Up
In the animal kingdom, creatures that rely on four legs to move around (called quadrupeds) exhibit some interesting behavior. During key moments, quadrupeds stand up on their hind legs and use ...