Meerkats (IMAGE)

Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology

Meerkats

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Female meerkats kill the offspring of their competitors to gain advantages for themselves and their own offspring, even if the victims are the children of their own sisters or daughters.

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Alecia Carter

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