They're MEERCATS! I had to throw this one in...the light was terrible in the enclosure as it was very late in the day...and even at ISO400 I was struggling to get 1/200 shutter. But during some shooting, all the meercats looked in my direction at once, so it was just such a cute pose: More playing around in the family group: The drawer of the short straw, assigned to guard duty: In talking with the rangers...this is a fairly new family group brought in a few months back. They apparently rotate family groups of meercats into the enclosure - the older family groups go into 'retirement' in an area with no people to bother them. They live about 12-14 years in captivity...they'll spend some years at the meercat exhibit, and then get to leave the public eye and live in a retirement community Disney has set aside. They said they get pretty crotchety in their old age!
