• Question: Do you enjoy looking after animals

    Asked by deed520jeer on 19 Dec 2024.
    • Photo: Heather Thompson

      Heather Thompson answered on 19 Dec 2024:

      In my role, I don’t actually spend much of my time working directly with the animals. Depending on which education sessions I am leading, I sometimes get to take students on tours behind the scenes, and during outreach and engagement activities with visitors, I sometimes assist animal keepers during their public talks and encounters.
      Recently, due to the development of a festive themed reindeer adaptations session, I have been spending time working with keepers to muck out and feed three beautiful young reindeer. This is my only experience actually working with animals at the zoo and I have really enjoyed it!
      Usually, my day to day role is mostly concerned with more familiar animals: humans.

    • Photo: Caroline Roche

      Caroline Roche answered on 20 Dec 2024:

      I love animals and would love to work with them (minus the pooper-scooper roles).
      But my work generally doesn’t involve animals directly, though we do sometimes have to put protections in place for nesting birds who have found a nice place to start a family in one of the buildings.

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