A Canal Boat Holiday booked from Hilperton on the Kennet And Avon Canal is the perfect location to visit Bristol Zoo and the new Meerkat enclosure.

A new indoor enclosure has been opened at Bristol Zoo for some of it's most endearing residents the meerkats.

The indoor enclosure is heated and includes warm rocks that provide localised additional warmth for the meerkats and large sandy areas for them to dig and forage in.

The new exhibit will allow visitors to observe the meerkats from a number of vantage points.

  Meerkats are highly social animals, native to southern Africa and they live in large and tight-knit communities called mobs or gangs.

The meerkats take in turns to do duties such as baby-sitting hunting or what they are most famous for sentry duty.

Over the last couple of years meerkats have been immortalised in the television advert for www.

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These adverts tell the story, as told by Aleksandr Orlov, of a meerkat family history from their humble beginnings in the village of Meerkovo.

An autobiography written by Aleksandr Orlov entitled A Simples Life was reputed to have once outsold Tony Blair's life story, A Journey.