Exposed: meerkat pictures were 'a slight hoax' - Update

Reports that meerkats at a British zoo took family snapshots when a camera was accidentally left in their enclosure were too good to be true.



Amateur Photographer, a magazine for hobbyists, spotted the hitch in the story.

While the pictures posted online of the meerkats were taken with a digital camera, the one that Ian Turner, deputy head warden at Longleat Safari Park in Wiltshire, said the camera he left with the meerkats was a Canon EOS 650, which uses old-fashioned film.