Adorable baby meerkats at Drusillas named after Friends cast and Joey doesn’t like sharing the food

The zoo, which has recently reopened following closure due to the Covid-19 crisis , have been running a competition to name their six beautiful baby meerkats.

The results are now in and Drusillas is proud to announce that the winning names are Chandler, Joey, Ross, Monica, Rachel and Phoebe.

The competition received hundreds of submissions, with lots of people eager to be in with a chance of naming the little meerkats.

The winning entry for the three girls came from Chloe Abby from Kent and the winning entry for the three boys came from Julie Humphries from Malvern.

Sophie Leadbitter, head keeper, said: “We are thrilled with the new names for our meerkat babies.

“We spent hours poring over all the name suggestions and when we found Julie and Chloe had suggested the male and female names from Friends, we just couldn’t resist.”

“The babies were born during lockdown so ‘we were on a break’ from our visitors when they arrived. It’s been great to welcome everyone back to the park and to have been able to introduce them to our gorgeous zoo babies.”

The meerkat babies are developing well and can already be seen standing on their back legs and in true Friends style, meerkat Joey definitely doesn’t share food.