Meerkats love hard-boiled eggs. This was the chance discovery that allowed Professor Tim Clutton-Brock unprecedented access to a society of wild meerkats, and the key that unlocked a thirty year ...

Does a drier and hotter climate present a threat to the meerkats in the Kalahari Desert? Researchers show that climate change is likely to impact meerkats, and seasonal rainfall and temperature will ...

Wild meerkats living in the Kalahari Desert in Southern Africa recognize group members from their calls, behavior researchers have established for the first time. The researchers assume that meerkats ...

If you've watched Disney's The Lion King, you must be familiar with the character Timon. Well, Timon is a meerkat. Meerkats, whose scientific name is Suricata suricatta, are small carnivores belonging ...

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Karen Hopkin: This is Scientific American’s 60-Second Science. I’m Karen Hopkin. Climate change. It’s the culprit behind an increase in droughts and floods, wildfires and storms. And a new study shows ...

Seasonal dynamics matter The Kalahari Desert in Southern Africa is projected to become drier and warmer as a result of climate change. The new study investigates how consistently rising summer ...

The effects of climate change are especially obvious in arid environments where resources are scarce and subject to seasonal availability. However, the demographic mechanisms through which seasonal ...