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Farewell, Komodo dragons. Welcome to Saskatoon, meerkats.

Two mobs of meerkats are moving into the space at the Saskatoon Forestry Farm Park and Zoo formerly occupied by Komodo dragons. The zoo’s newest exhibit is scheduled to open April 1.

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“The addition of the meerkats provides a great opportunity for us to bring some exciting new animals to Saskatoon, allowing visitors of all ages to meet meerkats, potentially for the first time,” said zoo manager Tim Sinclair-Smith.

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“Besides being irresistibly cute, two of the meerkats have been trained for interactive presentations and we are looking forward to bringing this unique type of educational programming to Saskatoon.”

A typical mob is made up of around 10 to 15 meerkats and up to three families living together. With powerful claws for digging and pointed snouts for excavating prey, meerkats are native to southern Africa, Botswana, Zimbabwe, and Mozambique.

The zoo is open daily from 10 a.m.-4 p.m. until the end of April and from 9 a.m.-9 p.m. starting in May.