Meerkat pups stand up for their species

By Steve Jacobs
Updated March 6 2016 - 10:08am, first published February 5 2016 - 12:56pm
Practising for sentry duty: The babies are already standing up on their hind legs. Photo:  Paul Fahy/Taronga Zoo
Practising for sentry duty: The babies are already standing up on their hind legs. Photo: Paul Fahy/Taronga Zoo
Aren't I cute? Taronga Zoo is celebrating the birth of its first meerkat pups in nearly seven years. Photo:  Paul Fahy/Taronga Zoo
Aren't I cute? Taronga Zoo is celebrating the birth of its first meerkat pups in nearly seven years. Photo: Paul Fahy/Taronga Zoo
Keeper: Courtney Mahony with her tiny charges. Photo:  Paul Fahy/Taronga Zoo
Keeper: Courtney Mahony with her tiny charges. Photo: Paul Fahy/Taronga Zoo
Motherly duties: Nairobi lets the pups suckle. Photo:  Paul Fahy/Taronga Zoo
Motherly duties: Nairobi lets the pups suckle. Photo: Paul Fahy/Taronga Zoo

Taronga's newest babies are only a month old, but they're already practising to be sentries, standing up on their hind legs in the characteristic meerkat pose.