Can you make a list for Mountain Zebra?
The old location of Zoo Miami, in Miami, Florida, is now open as a botanical garden, where you can still see the remains of some of the old zoo...
We need good vet techs in the field. The ones I have worked with are amazing. I hope you can get in!
There was a new red panda cub born June 16th, 2020 that is currently being hand raised because of a low birth weight and some complications with...
If you want to work with primates, or at any zoo, be open to moving in order to get relevant experience. I've seen people wait for a job to open...
I've been working as a full-time zookeeper for over five years. Currently work with hoofstock, but I've also worked with carnivores and primates....
Arual and Stella are the same individual. Yaa and Zakia are also the same individual (a year younger than Stella). Micanopy has Xote and Benny,...
I work in an AZA zoo in the US. The practice of breeding animals and culling the surplus is not nearly as widespread in the States as it is in...
Off the top of my head: Addax Sable Eland I've never worked with scimitar-horned oryx, but Arabian oryx are more cold sensitive in my experience,...
Why don't I open a zoo? Financial reasons, yes, but also...I have worked in the industry for 3+ years as a keeper (which isn't a lot of time, but...
You asked how do keepers know the populations of "free-ranging" birds inside indoor exhibits (I am assuming that you also question it for...
This is the first time I've read this thread, this is so cool! (And accurate!)
As someone who works as a zookeeper inside and out of exhibits every day, I will say that it is very hard for someone from the outside looking in...
Just because there are no feed stations for the zebra and ostrich doesn't mean that there aren't any. Giraffe naturally eat from high feeding...
AZA changed their elephant standards to say that at least 4 elephants have to be kept in a group to maintain proper social bonds, so a lot of zoos...
Indianapolis Zoo has Kangal dogs (similar to Anatolian Shepards) that they use for Cheetah chats, to talk about how the dogs are used in Africa to...
dunstbunny, have you ever actually worked great apes? Are you saying that keepers should work free contact with them? How will this prepare them...
How so? As long as it is cleaned properly and often enough (as in every day), and there is good air circulation/ventilation, it should be manageable.
Zoo Basel started breeding of critically endangered Somali Wild Ass in the '70s. Now the whole captive population of Somalis is related to the...
This has details of an otter exhibit built at Chester Zoo: ZooLex Exhibit At Zoo Zlin: ZooLex Exhibit At Zoo Miami: ZooLex Exhibit Minnesota...
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