In February 2011, the team around Prof. Marta Manser at Zurich University, Switzerland, was complemented by a group of four meerkats who moved into the newly built enclosure. The dominant female gave birth to five litters.
The meerkats will help Marta Manser and her team to better understand communication and cognition processes in the meerkat social structure; they will also form part of the research group’s teaching curriculum.
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