How do our meerkats react to mirrors?

Here's looking at you, cutie 😍
On Animal Park this morning, we saw if our red-handed tamarins were able to recognise themselves in a reflective surface, which gave us a brilliant idea for meerkat enrichment! Whilst we knew the mob wouldn’t be able to recognise their reflections, we got to see them dig, look behind the mirror and posture at what they perceived to be another group - all fascinating natural behaviours that we try to encourage and build on to enable them to have fun, express themselves and explore here at Longleat.
Watch the latest episode of Animal Park to see how our red-handed tamarins got on: https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode...