Daily Life of the ZooKeepers

The animals at the Zoo all have daily schedules, so that means the zoo keepers usually do as well. Beth, the zookeeper I’m paired up with told me that every morning, everyone checks up on the animals and takes account for them, and making sure they are alive and well. No one’s patrolling them overnight, and the zoo just wants to make sure nothing is wrong. Then she says that the rest of her day is filled with a lot of “cleaning, feeding, and medicating.” All of those animals, all 1,200+, need to have a clean place to live, be healthy, and eat! That’s a lot of work that these zookeepers do. Beth said that many people think that she get to cuddle with the animals and play around, but she says that’s completely wrong. ‘They are still WILD animals. Your average squirrel in the backyard doesn't want anything to do with you and most of the zoo animals are just the same.’ They’re may be a very few cases where the zookeepers would get to make contact with the animals, but not many.

Thanks!
~Brooke