Following an epic weekend for Team GB, the keepers at a Pembrokeshire zoo have named their new furry additions after British Olympians.

Meet these seven baby slender- tailed meerkats, Jazz Carlin, Owain Doull, Becky James, Max Whitlock, Justin Rose Vicky Thornleyand Mo Farah, who have been named after athletes competing in Rio.

The cute critters were born from two neighbouring families, with four babies from Kinky and Monty and three from Stumpy and Poppy.

Shelly Morris, zoo keeper at Folly Farm, said: “Our new additions to the meerkat mob are settling in really well! We regularly theme the names of our newest habitants and after such an epic weekend of sport, we decided to call the animals after our fantastic British athletes.

“Born just three weeks ago, they are still staying quite close to mum who is always on the lookout at Kalahari Critters, one of our animal enclosures.

“Meerkats are highly intelligent animals who are really protective of their young. We tend to leave them to it and just monitor the babies to make sure they’re happy, healthy and have enough mealworms and vegetables to munch on.

“As members of the mongoose family, they love to dig and spend their day creating large underground networks with lots of entrances and exits. When it’s sunny they love to sunbathe on top of their mounds.”

Meerkats are found only at the southern tip of Africa in the Kalahari and Namib deserts, and in Angola and South Africa. They live in large groups of roughly 20 individuals. The new additions have grown Folly Farm’s meerkat mob to 28 across two enclosures.

For more information about the animals at www.folly-farm.co.uk