2016年10月11日 · Meerkat babies start life deep underground in a birthing chamber lined with grasses. There are usually 3 to 4 in a litter, and they go by a few different names. Baby meerkats may be called pups, puppies, kits, kittens and sometimes cubs.

2023年5月25日 · The Smithsonian’s National Zoo in Washington DC is celebrating the birth of meerkat pups for the first time in 16 years. The three pups are two weeks old, and are starting to open their eyes and...

2024年10月5日 · Four baby meerkats have joined the San Diego Zoo with the first birth of the tiny members of the mongoose family in six years. The mother, named Shaka, is doing well and has a healthy appetite,...

2023年5月25日 · Baby meerkats have been born at a world famous zoo for the first time in more than 16 years, and the pups have been caught on camera.

For the first time in 16 years, the Smithsonian’s National Zoo and Conservation Biology Institute (NZCBI) in Washington, D.C., is celebrating the birth of three meerkats. Keepers in the Small Mammal House reported for duty the morning of May 10 and observed that 5-year-old Sadie had given birth overnight.

2023年5月24日 · Three meerkat pups were born at the National Zoo on May 10, the Zoo announced today. The 14-day-old pups are just starting to open their eyes and inspect their home in the Small Mammal House. They are the first meerkats born at the zoo in 16 years.

2023年3月29日 · One of two meerkat babies plays with an older meerkat inside their habitat at the Carruth Natural Encounters Exhibit. In the comments, some zoo-goers said they were lucky enough to see the pups...

Baby meerkats. Other names for meerkats include slender-tailed meerkat and African suricate. In addition to taking turns as guard, meerkats also share the duty of raising the pups and teaching them how to hide, hunt, clean, and defend all that is theirs.

2023年6月7日 · Animal care staff describe each of the three baby meerkats—which weigh about one ounce (30 grams) at birth— as sociable, energetic and inquisitive. The arrival of these pups marks the first ...

Via the BBC’s Earth Unplugged and Animals with Cameras, specifically a wild Kalahari meerkat with a collar camera, go into the belowground birthing chamber tunnels that shelter these five one-day old meerkats babies and their mother —a first look for the scientists who are studying these small mammals: