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Close of meerkats 2. Various of meerkats 3. Wide of Lucy Hawley, London Zoo meerkat keeper SOUNDBITE (English) Lucy Hawley, Meerkat zoo keeper:\"We love them we are having such a success rate with the meerkat babies at the moment. ...\u003c/span\u003e\n\u003cspan class='full-description hide'\u003e1. Close of meerkats \u003cbr/\u003e2. Various of meerkats \u003cbr/\u003e3. Wide of Lucy Hawley, London Zoo meerkat keeper \u003cbr/\u003eSOUNDBITE (English) Lucy Hawley, Meerkat zoo keeper:\u003cbr/\u003e\"We love them we are having such a success rate with the meerkat babies at the moment.  They were born in July. There is four of them, all around my heals.They are doing really well we are really happy with their progression. They have a good weight on them. They are looking really healthy and they are getting on so well with the group as well.  We have a group together now of ten meerkats which is the biggest we have had in a while so it's  really good.  And they look great as well, they look so happy  together and it looks good for the public.\"\u003cbr/\u003e4. Close of two meerkat kits (babies) playing \u003cbr/\u003e5. Close of mother and child watching the meerkats\u003cbr/\u003e6.  Close of young boy watching the meerkats\u003cbr/\u003e7. Wide of meerkats standing up\u003cbr/\u003e8. SOUNDBITE (English) Lucy Hawley, Meerkat zoo keeper:\u003cbr/\u003e\"They're (meerkats) carnivores they are from the mongoose family and they are unique in the way that they stay together in quite large family groups.  They get up to any were to about fifteen individuals and they love eating together, they love sleeping together. They will constantly be burrowing creating their own homes underground they create a network of tunnels and if they are not sunning themselves to keep themselves nice and warm. Then they are digging continually making a little city underneath the ground which they also use to keep themselves warm at night time as well.\"\u003cbr/\u003e9. Wide of meerkat under heat lamp \u003cbr/\u003e10. Close up of meerkats\u003cbr/\u003e11. SOUNDBITE (English) Yasmin, London Zoo visitor:\u003cbr/\u003e\"A lot smaller than I imagined actually. Very alert  and very aware of what's going on around them.Yes tiny in fact I thought they were going to be a lot bigger than they were.\"  \u003cbr/\u003e12. SOUNDBITE (English) Michael, London Zoo visitor:\u003cbr/\u003e\"They are quite small quite funny really.\"\u003cbr/\u003e13. SOUNDBITE (English) (no name available) London Zoo visitor:\u003cbr/\u003e\"I think they are really cute you see the difference between the little ones and the big ones and as Casper (her son) was saying just before in Dutch he says that  you could see them being alert and looking around and  we really like it seeing that they are enjoying  their life.\"\u003cbr/\u003e14. Close of meerkats \u003cbr/\u003e15. SOUNDBITE (English) Lucy Hawley, Meerkat zoo keeper:\u003cbr/\u003e\"I think its very hard to successfully breed species in zoo's. It's a good way really of telling that you have successfully reproduced the right kind of conditions for them that they would be used too in the wild. Which is why we are so pleased with I mean this enclosure is about three years old now so it's a fairly new enclosure and we have been learning as much as we can about the species from books from talking to other zoos.  Its always good to interact with other zoos that may be have a better success rate with breeding other species sort of compare notes and reproduce these situations for them.\"\u003cbr/\u003e16. Close of meerkats emerging from the enclosures tunnel \u003cbr/\u003e17. Various meerkats \u003cbr/\u003e18. SOUNDBITE (English) Lucy Hawley, Meerkat zoo keeper:\u003cbr/\u003e\"This is one of the youngsters. It is getting hard to tell the difference at the moment because they are growing up so fast soon its going to be impossible too tell the difference between these and the last youngsters.  This is one of our males definitely one of our breeding males which breeds with our females.\"\u003cbr/\u003e19.  Close of meekats looking into the camera lens \u003cbr/\u003eLondon Zoo is celebrating the debut of their newest arrivals....a litter of baby meerkats.  \u003cbr/\u003eA meerkat called Jenny has given birth too four kits (baby meerkats) \u003cbr/\u003eJenny, who was also a London Zoo baby, emerged with her little kits out from the enclosures main burrow in July.\u003cbr/\u003eThe four mischievous kits were released into the main meerkat enclosure last week to the delight of adoring keepers and zoo visitors.\u003cbr/\u003eSince their debut last week, visitors to London Zoo have been delighted to see the tiny four furry meerkat kits playing with each other. \u003cbr/\u003eLucy Hawley, on of the keepers responsible for the meerkat enclosure says she is very happy with their progression and they were interacting well with the group.\u003cbr/\u003eMeerkats are part of the mongoose family and originate from the African grasslands.\u003cbr/\u003eMeerkats differ from most mongooses because they live in large social communities of more than one family called \"mobs\" or \"gangs\".\u003cbr/\u003eHawley says meerkats are very social creatures and love eating, sleeping and burrowing together. \u003cbr/\u003eThe creatures which measure on average just one foot (30 centimetres) tall are famous for standing erect using their tails for balance. \u003cbr/\u003eThis enables them not only to catch sun's rays better, but also to watch for danger.  \u003cbr/\u003eThe dominant male of the group can be seen standing tall on rock, whilst the rest of his family.. rest, play, feed and burrow nearby. \u003cbr/\u003eIt danger approaches he sounds an alarm, creating a noise in the back of his throat and stamping his feet to raise dust to scare away any would-be predators.  \u003cbr/\u003eThe meerkat diet consists of delicacies such as bugs, lizards, and small rodents.  \u003cbr/\u003eMeerkats have the ability to use their sharp claws to dig huge burrows and  tunnel systems for their colony. \u003cbr/\u003eHawley says its difficult to successfully breed animals in captivity.\u003cbr/\u003eShe believes the new arrivals are a good indicator that the zoo has successfully reproduced the right conditions for breeding.\u003cbr/\u003eMeerkats are sexually mature after about a year.\u003cbr/\u003eMating takes place throughout the year and pregnancy lasts only 11 weeks\u003cbr/\u003eBaby Meerkats (kits) will emerge from  burrows at 3 weeks.\u003cbr/\u003eMeerkats can live up to twelve years.\u003cbr/\u003eHawley says its nearly impossible too tell the difference between the youngsters and the young adults as they  are growing up so quickly. \u003cbr/\u003eLondon Zoo has a specially built a mound to allow meerkats behave just as they would in the wild.\u003cbr/\u003eClients are reminded: \u003cbr/\u003e(i) to check the terms of their licence agreements for use of content outside news programming and that further advice and assistance can be obtained from the AP Television News 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