Three adorable dwarf mongooses make one of their first excursions out of their den. The Southern dwarf mongooses were born in mid-September at the Tiergarten Schonbrunn zoo in Vienna, Austria. In the ...

Kelli Bender is the Pets Editor at PEOPLE. She has been working at PEOPLE since 2013. Her work has previously appeared on MTV, The Frisky, Vice, and Best Friends Magazine. England's Chester Zoo has ...

The quintuplets, dubbed the “Fab Five,” were born at the Chester Zoo in England a few weeks ago, and are just beginning to open their eyes and take their first steps outside of their den. “Dwarf ...

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CHICAGO (CBS) -- Awww, there are some new arrivals to celebrate at Brookfield Zoo. Extensive observation of the human condition has shown, baby animals can put a smile on your face. First, we have ...

A capricious dwarf mongoose has gone viral for playing dead around an unsuspecting yellow-billed hornbill bird in a clip filmed in the Sabi Sands Game Reserve in South Africa. In the Safari Live video ...

Just as soldiers on sentry duty constantly adjust their behavior to match the current threat level, dwarf mongoose sentinels exhibit flexible decision-making in relation to predation risk, new ...

Dwarf mongoose inhabit the grasslands of southern Africa. They are Africa’s smallest carnivore. The individual pictured above lives in a new exhibit at Wildlife Conservation Society’s Prospect Park ...

Faced with potential violence from rival factions, dwarf mongoose groupmates pull together and behave more cooperatively, according to new research. Faced with potential violence from rival factions, ...

Communication plays a vital role in the social lives of many species and varies greatly in complexity. One possible way to increase communicative complexity is by combining signals into longer ...