Meet Will Burrard-Lucas. He's a wildlife photographer. (Photo/Burrard-Lucas Photography)
He's photographed a lot of scary animals, like <a href="http://www.burrard-lucas.com/gallery/wildlife/africa/safari.html" target="_blank">lions and leopards</a>. During his most recent photography trip, though, the wildlife was a different kind of wild. (Photo/Burrard-Lucas Photography)
Burrard-Lucas spent six days hanging out with meerkats, and they turned out to be more adventurous than you might expect. (Photo/Burrard-Lucas Photography)
"It certainly surprised me how much the meerkats seemed to want to climb on me," he said. "They used me as a lookout post but also they sometimes just seemed to enjoy sitting on me because it was comfy." (Photo/Burrard-Lucas Photography)
Meerkats try to get as high as they can, Burrard-Lucas explains in his <a href="http://blog.burrard-lucas.com/2014/04/photographing-meerkats/" target="_blank">blog post</a> about the trip. This helps them detect predators. (Photo/Burrard-Lucas Photography)
When a meerkat on the lookout spots a threat and needs to warn the others, <a href="http://video.nationalgeographic.com/video/kids/animals-pets-kids/wild-detectives-kids/wd-ep7-meerkatcode/" target="new">it barks</a>. As if they couldn't get any cuter. (Photo/Burrard-Lucas Photography)
While we're sure it was cool to turn into a human lookout post for the adult meerkats, can you guess the part of his trip we're most jealous of? (Photo/Burrard-Lucas Photography)
That's right. The babies. (Photo/Burrard-Lucas Photography)
How do you fit that much cuteness into that little of an animal? (Photo/Burrard-Lucas Photography)
Just. Look. At. Them. (Photo/Burrard-Lucas Photography)
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The best part is the 3-week-olds wanted to be friends with him too.
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"The babies took a couple of days to build up their confidence," he said, "but by the end they were completely fearless of me."
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Fearless enough to try to take a better photo? Good luck with that, you adorable budding artist. (Photo/Burrard-Lucas Photography)
Watch Burrard-Lucas talk about his latest (and, dare we say, cutest) project: <a href="http://abc11.tv/1eMNYPC">http://abc11.tv/1eMNYPC</a> (Photo/Burrard-Lucas Photography)