Meerkats

Here you will find our slender-tailed meerkats playing about within our Discovery Desert exhibit.

You will find them most active around the following times (GMT):

• 09:30 to 10:00 - Morning feed
• 12:30 to 13:00 - Afternoon feed

These stripy sentinels are a favourite with natural history filmmakers and visitors because of their endearing upright postures and fascinating social behaviour.

A once familiar sight in the dry sandy regions of southern Africa, the slender-tailed meerkat, although not considered endangered, is susceptible to disturbance and habitat loss caused by human activity.