Compare the meerkat? Meerkats watch rivals’ growth and eat to compete

Faced with a rapidly fattening rival, meerkats respond by eating more in an urgent effort not to slip down the social hierarchy, a new study shows

"Unfairness bothers children greatly." This quotation comes from Karen Joy Fowler's 2014 novel We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves and it comes to mind on an almost daily basis as I struggle to manage the tensions between my two pre-teen boys.

It is also a sentiment that appears to apply to meerkats, according to a nifty little study out today.