Meerkats play hide and seek in Autumn leaves

Published on 12/10/2012 14:04

A delightfully cute posse of meerkats at Blair Drummond Safari Park celebrated the changing of the seasons with a game of hide and seek.

Keepers at the Stirling park filled the animals’ enclosure with the colourful leaves to let them play and dig.

The falling autumn leaves have created a fun game of hide and seek for a group of meerkats.

Hidden in the leaves are meerkats’ favourite treat - mealworms.

For the meerkats, whose species became endeared to the public’s heart thanks to a high profile insurance advert, it was a case if ‘compare the mealworm’.

Park manager Gary Gilmour said: “It helps stimulate their natural digging action and keeps them occupied for hours.

“They love it.”