Video: Compare the meerkats' new arrivals
THE pitter-patter of tiny feet is to be expected at this time of year as spring approaches, but has some new arrivals with a difference in the form of three new-born meerkats.
Tropical World in Roundhay, Leeds, has seen its first success as part of a new breeding programme with three baby meerkats born to a female brought to the attraction from the Cotswold Wildlife Park.
They are four weeks old and have only this week started to be brought to the surface by their mother, after three weeks completely underground in their burrows under her protection.
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Hide AdThe babies are not yet old enough for their sexes to be determined but are the first meerkats to be born at Tropical World in over 10 years.
Coun John Procter, Leeds City Council's executive member for leisure said he hoped the new arrivals would be the first of many