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# Remember the baby Meerkat pictures I posted on Thursday?
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here was a slightly more unfluffy edge I held back from my early morning photo shoot before posting it here. They had been born in the night apparently, and I was about the second or third person to see them. Infanticide is not unusual among animals in social groups, especially if young are born dead or die shortly after birth, so this is not unusual. I just wanted to talk to a few keepers first, as with the Curator of Mammals at the zoo, before posting this.

The surviving babies were doing fine when I last had a peek at them at lunchtime, though mama was generally hiding them behind the rocks under their heat-lamp.

There's more pictures, of the babies and the devoured, here

I assumed you guys might be interested. :)





(I helped save b3ta! Jahled Three shades of black, Fri 17 Aug 2007, 22:11, archived)
# i hope they fucked it before they ate it
(I helped save b3ta! mongychops, Fri 17 Aug 2007, 22:13, archived)
# i'd taken that as a given
(I helped save b3ta! mutster101 fell over, Fri 17 Aug 2007, 22:16, archived)
# Great.
(I helped save b3ta! (|D[ekionplexis B3ta.com: fictional child porn is OK, Fri 17 Aug 2007, 22:13, archived)
# Well, you know what assume does.....
(AMadDayYes, Fri 17 Aug 2007, 22:14, archived)
# Ahhhhhhhhhhh
it makes me a little sad, but then it's nature at work and who am i to interfere.

good to hear that ther are other still doing fine.

keep us posted on their development.
(I helped save b3ta! Thor_sonofodin has done things, terrible things on, Fri 17 Aug 2007, 22:17, archived)
# I will Thor!
:)
(I helped save b3ta! Jahled Three shades of black, Fri 17 Aug 2007, 22:23, archived)
# splendid stuff
i was going to go for a job at bristol zoo, but unfortunaly they weren't paying enough for me to be able to make the move.

i would have loved it.
(I helped save b3ta! Thor_sonofodin has done things, terrible things on, Fri 17 Aug 2007, 22:55, archived)
# Give us a shout if you're ever in London Matey
London Zoo can become amazingly more affordable with my ID badge at the entrance gate :)
(I helped save b3ta! Jahled Three shades of black, Fri 17 Aug 2007, 23:00, archived)
# Meerkats are little sods


The milkman hasn't been able to deliver here for weeks.
(I helped save b3ta! Halibut If you think education is expensive, try crack., Fri 17 Aug 2007, 22:19, archived)
# harrrr!
(I helped save b3ta! Mousing, Fri 17 Aug 2007, 22:21, archived)
# Haha
(I helped save b3ta! Jahled Three shades of black, Fri 17 Aug 2007, 22:27, archived)
#
that one's got a verreh cheeky grin
makes me want to draw it.
(I helped save b3ta! Iananan Formerly known as el-rodente, not that you care, Fri 17 Aug 2007, 23:05, archived)
# Surely if the babies are born dead
it's not infanticide?
(Pavlov'sDog is all out of pavlova, Fri 17 Aug 2007, 22:24, archived)
# You have a valid point
Me typing to fast may have skirted a few harsh truths about our close relations..
(I helped save b3ta! Jahled Three shades of black, Fri 17 Aug 2007, 22:31, archived)
# oh yeah, meerkats!
(I helped save b3ta! mutster101 fell over, Fri 17 Aug 2007, 22:24, archived)
# Flower fluffiness! Yay
(I helped save b3ta! Jahled Three shades of black, Fri 17 Aug 2007, 22:35, archived)
# How could they do that for the love of god..
.. needs much more gravy mmmmmmmmmmm
(I helped save b3ta! Signify, Fri 17 Aug 2007, 22:27, archived)