MORE STALIN, LESS CHAPLIN
Yes, they’re adorable and yes, they’re hilarious. But a closer look at meerkats reveals a ruthlessly Darwinian society where cute doesn’t count for much.
Lucy Cooke is the author of Bitch: On the Female of the Species, The Truth About Animals, which was short-listed for the Royal Society Prize, and the New York Times bestselling A Little Book of Sloth. She is a National Geographic explorer, TED talker, and award-winning documentary filmmaker with a master’s degree in zoology from Oxford University. She lives in Hastings, England.