ZooChat Keeper Survey

Are you a Keeper?

  • Total voters
    112
I'm hoping to become a keeper, and am studying for a BSc (Biodiversity and Conservation). I'm intending to get a lot more experience through volunteer work (I've just started training as an enrichment volunteer at Adelaide Zoo), and am hoping to undertake an internship in the US.

My ultimate goal would be to work with great apes as they are my biggest passion, but I would be absolutely thrilled to get any keeper job, I have no doubt it would be worth all the hard work and probable difficulty in getting there.
 
I'm now retired but still active in the zoo business. However, I will always consder myself a keeper after nearly 30 years in the field.
 
Just tried to respond to this thread as a keeper, which I now am. Couldn't vote of course, as I voted a year or so back, when I wasn't a keeper.
 
Just discovered this thread courtesy of FBBird's post. I haven't voted as, as has been mentioned, there is no "former keeper" category, but when I was a part-time keeper I was also working part-time in accountancy.
 
I could be classed as a keeper I suppose and was a zoo keeper in the past. I work in animal education at a private collection :)
 
I feel your results may be slightly skewed as many of the UK's larger zoos do not like their staff posting on Zoo Chat - that's not to say that they are not here obviously so I think they might not be at liberty to answer yes to this post! On the other hand you have unearthed a liberal sprinkling of fellow under graduates with whom to converse!
 
Ex-keeper. Started with my own small privat collection, then took care for the collection ( also privat ) of a friend and then started as a profecional keeper at Walsrode birdpark, then moved to Gettorf ( both Germany ) and ended my profecional carriereat Pairi Daiza in Belgium. After that I've helped several smaller collections in the Netherlands with advice about keeping, feeding, breeding and stuff like that.
 
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