Reid Park Zoo Welcomes Five Meerkat Pups

In the early morning hours of Thursday, April 9, staff at the Reid Park Zoo performing rounds discovered three adult meerkats huddled around squirming legs—the excited gesticulations of five newborn pups.The meerkats are the first-ever of the species born at the zoo, and came only three days after the zoo announced the birth of a 295-pound African elephant calf.…