If the alarm call has been given for a snake, the meerkats will come together to scare off the attacker in a strategy known as “mobbing.” The group will aggressively move around the reptile ...

That’s essentially the cooperative breeding system of meerkat groups, in which one dominant male and female monopolize the mating and pup-bearing. What helps that female keep her coveted position?

Meerkats have incredibly complex behaviour ... to look for the pups even though she would not be able to hear them calling. Maybe because all pups were lost at once following an extreme event ...