Be A Zoo Keeper | Get My Job

hi I'm Jess and I'm a zookeeper and this is how you get my job when people think of zookeepers they think that I just play with animals all day but there is a lot more to it you get to build a relationship with the animals you do have to clean unfortunately but you do get to I guess train them and just get to know all the fascinating things about all the different species for example primates that I've worked with there's so many different interesting facts and behaviors and even personalities that you'll get to learn with all the animals you work with so a typical day on the primate Department is getting allows if it's ready for our visitors to come to the zoo so we clean all our animal exhibit we give our primates fresh food in the morning and enrichment then set up for behind-the-scenes if we have any and then do lots of training as well it's really important that we enrich our animals so one of the things that I'm encouraging here is some foraging behavior so for these guys squirrel monkeys are really inquisitive they like to check things out and we really want to encourage that behavior so we want them to investigate these boxes and find as many food and insects as they can I thought to be a zookeeper from a lot of volunteering I worked in some other animal organizations to get a lot of experience and when you apply for zoos sanctuaries and any animal work it's really great to be able to say that you've got experience in the animal industry and that you've been able to work with animals in the past and then I'll meet you at the kitchen yes one of my favorite things in facts about primates is that us ourselves are primates and there are so many things that we can do to help these guys like recycling our old mobile phones which at the zoo here we encourage everyone to recycle any old mobile phones in there they're calling on your campaign and that will help reduce some of the mining that occurs over in Africa and Madagascar which is where the lemurs are found and help those guys out in the wild my three top tips are networking so visit some zoos and sanctuaries and get to know people go to animal talk volunteering definitely get some experience with animals in different animal organization and any education so zoology environmental studies and any certificate in animal studies so now you know what it takes to be a zookeeper thanks for hanging out guys you can swing by anytime

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Length: 3min 9sec (189 seconds)

Published: Sun Apr 28 2019