The cute and the shocking at Meerkat Manor

For the past 13 years, Tim Clutton-Brock has conducted a field study of meerkats in the Kalahari Desert. Clutton-Brock and his colleagues have published reports on meerkat behaviors ranging from altruism to infanticide. This article is an overview of the research being done by the behavioural ecologist Tim Clutton-Brock and his colleagues - and gives quite a good summary of the science behind the Soap. (via)