image: Kalahari meerkats thrive in a harsh desert environment, yet an increase in extreme climatic events may threaten their persistence. This material relates to a paper that appeared in the Feb. 8, 2019 issue of Science, published by AAAS. The paper, by Maria Paniw at University of Zurich in Zurich, Switzerland, and colleagues was titled, "Life history responses of meerkats to seasonal changes in extreme environments." view more
Credit: Kalahari Meerkat Project by Arpat Ozgul