Your morning adorable: Baby meerkats at Australia's Taronga Zoo
Baby meerkats Zanzibar and Nairobi are new residents of Sydney's Taronga Zoo. They are tiny enough to fit easily into the palm of their keeper's hand.
The babies were born Jan. 23 and are the first meerkats born at the zoo in nine years. "I'm extremely thrilled, I'm over the moon, I've been waiting for this for quite a long time now," meerkat keeper Bobby-Jo Vial told the Sydney Morning Herald.
"They're already eating solid foods and displaying behaviours similar to adults," Vial continued. "They're very precocious."
More photos after the jump!
--Lindsay Barnett
1st, 2nd and 4th photos: Rick Stevens/Associated Press
3rd photo: Greg Wood / AFP/Getty Images
i have been to this zoo few years back. they are incredibly cute and frisky. their behaviour makes you laugh. human babies are not even one quarter this cute. please breed more meerkats.beautiful round eyes with so much glow and full of energy
Posted by: kanan | February 21, 2009 at 09:29 AM
i think them baby merkats are soo cute i love them awww they are the gawjus thing ive ever seen in my life x x
Posted by: Amanda Stevenson | February 25, 2009 at 12:56 AM
Aren't they the cutest things in the zoo, it is amazing and we would like to visit them!
Posted by: Abby & Alicia of Bondi | February 26, 2009 at 12:07 AM
they are so cute!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!:)
Posted by: crazy 4 meerkats | January 31, 2011 at 08:14 AM