Are there any photos of the new Sea lion exhibit anywhere?
Jumping (porpoising) for eared seals IS a natural behaviour. I assume you mean why do some collections still do relatively "non-educational"...
Combe Martin recently got Barbary macaques from a european rescue charity (AAP).
Have they released any information on the fur seal pool developments?
They are rare, but within that particular population more so than elsewhere (as mentioned in the article). Male grey seals are darker than the...
Yeah I think the economic issues are partly to blame. It's just unfortunate for people trying to get into the industry at this time. Regarding...
Evidence for the increasing popularity of these long internships can be seen in the link below: (look at the adverts from Colchester, Chester and...
Really? I haven't found any in the UK and have had a brief look at some in the USA (aquatics/marine related), pretty much all don't include housing.
I think the point is that you won't have any money because you'll be working full time for free for a whole year. To complete the internship you...
My original reason for posting this thread was actually about the internships increasing from 3-4 months to a whole year of unpaid work. That was...
Not all of the people responding have stated that they are zoo professionals I don't think. It's hard not to reply like that when people are...
The thing with the uniform was that we were originally told we could wear blue trousers or shorts (not jeans). The type of outdoorsy/zookeeper...
This. As I said earlier everyone has misunderstood what I was saying. Should have known criticising zoos on a forum full of zoo enthusiasts would...
See my above response. I wasn't moaning about doing the tasks. I was talking about the fact that because they need X amount of volunteers at Y...
The zoo that I almost volunteered at said they were happy enough that people wanted to volunteer their time at the zoo that they get preference...
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