Meerkats live in large social groups with one dominant breeding pair A lonely heart three-year-old meerkat has finally found love thanks to a dating website set up to find a mate. Staff at Twinlakes Park in Melton Mowbray were running out of ideas to find female meerkat Lilly a partner after a previous deal fell through. In a last-ditch attempt they set up meerkatmatch.com advertising her as "alert and dark-eyed". Since then, the site has had 74,000 hits and a breeder offered a two-year-old male from Cambridge. The site has had 74,000 hits and the young male, named Mr Darcy by staff at the park, has joined Lilly and the pair are getting on like a house on fire, staff said. Emma Roe, office manager and "meerkat match-maker", said: "We were contacted by a breeder who offered us a possible match - he turned out to be perfect. "Meerkats live in large social groups and within the group there is only one dominant breeding pair. "He was an underdog in a mob of nine and the ideal catch for Lilly. "Having no name we felt 'Mr Darcy' was appropriate for our romantic hero. She's actually become quite possessive over him

Emma Roe, meerkat match-maker "Hopefully he will be able to woo Lilly and become topcat!" Park manager Sandy Gyorvari said Mr Darcy had already settled in well and had been accepted by lonely Lilly. She said: "He's lovely, he's very nice mannered, and they're getting on really well. "Females tend to be more dominant than males so she's bossing him about a bit, but he's settled in really well. "With her being on her own for a while, we were worried she had become a bit humanised and how she would react to another meerkat - she was either going to accept him or not - but it's worked out really well. "She's actually become quite possessive over him." Ms Gyorvari said there is a plan to set up a webcam so people can watch the budding romance between Lilly and Mr Darcy. Please turn on JavaScript. Media requires JavaScript to play. Advertisement



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