Come check out our four brand new Meerkat pups born recently here at the Toledo Zoo! Watch them run around, dig, and play with the rest of the Meerkats in . We recently had some new meerkat pups born in August! See them playing around with the rest of the family! Song: Carefree by Kevin MacLeod. Taronga Zoo is celebrating the birth of its first Meerkat pups in nearly seven years. The meerkat or suricate is a small carnivoran belonging to the mongoose family (Herpestidae). It is the only member of the genus Suricata. Meerkats live in all .