When you are starting out in the zoo world, and again, it depends on what animals you like, but you can't really be picky. Once you're a zoo keeper, you don't tend to leave. Chimpansees are very smart, so a a good way to keep them happy in captivity is to give them as much choice as possible. They can do whatever they want. We work them in a vision fusion management style so that mimics the wild,. So they can decide who they want to be with and where they want to go. I'm now up to having a sunday mondayc m, our days could be different... But most zoo keepers will
Settle in with Alie Ward and guest Kate Gilmore, a professional primatologist and lead keeper of the great apes and Old World monkeys at the Los Angeles Zoo. Learn about chimpanzee mating, why zookeepers don't wear FitBits, primate DRAAAMA, the erroneous philosophy behind truck nuts and what happens in the middle the night at the zoo. Also get some good info on primate conservation and how to be a friend to orangutans.
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Music by Nick Thorburn
Mixing and final production by Jason Scardamalia