CAMBRIDGE, England, May 29 (UPI) -- The survival of meerkats living in clans in South Africa's Kalahari Desert is threatened by inbreeding, researchers conducting a 20-year study say.
Scientists at the universities of Edinburgh, Cambridge and Zurich, as well as the Zoological Society of London, said their study of almost 2,000 meerkats found nearly half showing some evidence of inbreeding, the BBC reported.