While this is going on, they look a little something like the cat in the TikTok video below... This video shared by ...

For starlings and meerkats in the Kalahari Desert, the fork-tailed drongo, a songbird with glossy black feathers and garnet-red eyes, is like the neighborhood dog: a trustworthy pal that's always ...

The little black birds spend their days listening in on the alarm calls of small birds and mammals—sociable weavers, pied babblers, meerkats, and the like—and will impersonate these manic ...

The fork-tailed species will follow meerkats as they forage, taking beak-sized morsels that they dig up or flush out, and even occasionally stealing prey from the meerkats themselves.

Meerkats also prey on birds, reptiles, and scorpions. However, they are mainly insectivores, meaning they prefer insects during hunting. Another unique fact about their eating habit is water ...

On the plains of Africa, you’ll find a surprising cooperation between two typically adversarial animals—the drongo bird and the meerkat.

3 baby meerkats make debut at Brookfield Zoo. ... They also eat reptile eggs, rodents, small birds, lizards, snails, and plants. In the zoo, they eat cat food, dry dog food, vegetables, ...

Meerkat Manor, the Animal Planet hit from the 2000s, is getting the an animated movie from Warner Bros. Animation.

Well that evidence is no longer anecdotal. In a new study published today, Tom Flower from the University of Cambridge has indeed found that fork-trailed drongos can deceive meerkats into scurrying ...

Besides protection from predators, meerkats stand up for the sake of dispute. Meerkats may live in large family units, but that doesn’t mean they don’t have rivalries.