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 ...

But one day in April, his caretakers discovered him in his enclosure ... both of Jeffrey’s brothers—two of the zoo’s remaining three meerkats—would die in similar ways.

This is the amusing moment meerkats cooled off by licking and eating on an ice block. Six mongooses enjoyed a snack of dead ...