I'm finally getting around to introduce myself. I'm a recently retired zookeeper and I worked at several zoos/aquariums and a natural history museum across the country. I've been following this forum for a couple of years and joined a few months ago. I have a wide range of natural history interest including earth science, botany, geography, and anthropology. My hobbies are reading ( besides natural history subjects I enjoy sci-fi and fantasy) and travel visiting zoos, natural history, art, history museums, botanical gardens, national, state, and local parks, and wildlife refuges. I'm also a certified scuba diver.
Hi there! Good to have a person with experience in the field on here. I look forwards to seeing your insights. Did you have a favorite species to work with during your time as a zookeeper?
Welcome to the forum. Always great to see more zoo professionals here and you sound like you probably have a pretty wide array of knowledge! Also a sci-fi fan!
In my 35+ years as a keeper I worked with a very wide range of taxa with some from all the vertebrate classes and a number invertebrates (marine, aquatic, and terrestrial) as well. Over half of my career I mostly worked with herps and zoo aquariums. So to pick one species that was my favorite is kind of hard, but push come to shove I would pick the Komodo dragon and I was really interested in crocodilians as well.
