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LONDON, ENGLAND - DECEMBER 17: Meerkats at ZSL London Zoo receive an early Christmas gift from their keepers of home-made crackers filled with meal worms and locusts on December 17, 2009 in London, England. The Zoological Society of London, which was founded in 1826, runs London Zoo and Whipsnade Zoo whilst also carrying out scientific research and conservation in the UK and abroad. (Photo by Oli Scarff/Getty Images)

[Hausen ob Verena, Germany; September 16. Image via Getty]

Two woman walk around an installation featuring 1000 yellow plastic meerkats in a field near the southern German town of Hausen ob Verena on September 16, 2009. The installation named 'Works Outing' (Betriebsausflug) by German artist Ottmar Hoerl is on show for the next four weeks. AFP PHOTO DDP / MICHAEL LATZ GERMANY OUT (Photo credit should read MICHAEL LATZ/AFP/Getty Images)

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LONDON - APRIL 30: Senior Keeper Suzi Hyde poses with a pair of hand reared baby meerkats named Lia and Roo at London Zoo on April 30, 2009 in London, England. Suzi has been hand rearing the meerkats since their mother abandoned them. (Photo by Tim Whitby/Getty Images)

[London, April 28. Image via INF]

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Meerkat pups 'Nairobi' (top) and 'Zanzibar' (below), four weeks old and the first to be born at Sydney's Taronga Zoo in nine years, are shown for the first time on February 20, 2009. Meerkats are native to southern Africa and the Kalahari Desert and have dark patches around their eyes to lessen the desert glare like sunglasses as well as ears that can close in the event of a sand storm. AFP PHOTO / Greg WOOD (Photo credit should read GREG WOOD/AFP/Getty Images)

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[London, January 8. Images via Getty]

LONDON, ENGLAND - JANUARY 08: A group of Oriental small-clawed otters line up on a rock at the ZSL London Zoo during the zoo's annual stocktake on January 8, 2009 in London, England. ZSL London Zoo is home to over 650 different species which all need to be cataloged in their annual stocktake which is a compulsory requirement for their zoo license. (Photo by Oli Scarff/Getty Images)

LONDON, ENGLAND - JANUARY 08: Zoo keeper Tony Dobbs makes a record of the number of meerkats in their enclosure at London Zoo as part of the zoo's annual stocktake on January 8, 2009 in London, England. ZSL London Zoo is home to over 650 different species which all need to be cataloged in their annual stocktake which is a compulsory requirement for their zoo license. (Photo by Oli Scarff/Getty Images)

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The three baby meerkats cuddle in the cold at Bristol Zoo on April 4 2008 in Bristol, England. The four-week-old new arrivals, two boys and a girl, are being well looked after by the other four adult meerkats and are already proving a hit with visitors who will be able to see them out in their enclosure more and more as the weather gets warmer. — Getty