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kadythethief · 4 months

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#zoology #zootopia #zootropolis #zoo #cute animals #animals #fish tank #fishblr #fish #dory #aquarium #sea #oceancore #ocean view #stone ocean #ocean #zoo life

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duckmoss · 9 months

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I don’t understand the people that get upset about new big cat legislation in the US that make it harder for people who want to run a tiger king style zoo to do so.

Like, as a zookeeper, yes. Make it more difficult for Some Guy to get a literal cougar and keep it in his backyard “zoo”. You want those cats? Apply for and maintain proper permitting. And stop cuddling with them. They’re still wild animals and behave accordingly (as they should).

We do it for other species with the understanding that it’s better for those animals. It’s the literal same.

#duck speaks #zoology #big cats #big cat public safety act #people are dumb #zoo #zoo life

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blazinblades · 7 months

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I went to the zoo for the first time with some classmates today. It was rather fun. And the animals were super cute. I thought it was interesting that they let the peacocks roam free. Today was much better than yesterday, for sure.

#Lilith Talks #animals #zoo life #photography #Don't Play This Game!#prologue #my photos

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2022dirt · 10 months

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A wild bald eagle on top of a bald eagle enclosure.

#nature is everything #nature is weird #interesting #interesting facts #nature #discover #animals #zootopia #zoos #zoo #zoology #zoomies #zoophotography #zooanimals #zoo life #planet zoo #zoot muppet #edinburgh zoo #bald eagle

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lenbryant · 1 year

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Basic gorilla hygiene.

#gorilla #shower #hygiene #zoo life

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uniqueperson8 · 10 months

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#deers🦌#zoo life #cute animals

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catfang12 · 10 months

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My favorite pictures I took at the zoo today!!!!!!!

#zoo life

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xenolinguistics-department · 1 year

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just attempted friendly communication with a coworker...... if I'm lucky something good might come out of it today heheheh

#zoo life

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mochisquish · 7 months

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Thank you, Snoop Logg...

#animals #cute animals #marine life #fish #aquarium #manatee #alligator gar #zoo #Cincinnati Zoo #fat animals

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w-4-t-3-v-4 · 3 months

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The world, poised at birth's threshold,

Between darkness and light, behold,

A delicate balance, precariously held,

Where nature's power is yet to unfold.

In the distance, rain approaches,

A symphony of scent encroaches,

Upon the senses, a sweet refrain,

Whispers of petrichor, an earthly strain.

The air, bursting with anticipation,

As if nature knows, with great elation,

The rain will come, a force of creation,

Cleansing, renewing, a welcome sensation.

And as he pads across the land,

A lone wolf, with paw and steady hand,

His silhouette, a darker smudge,

Against the backdrop of clouds, they drudge.

With heightened senses, he howls,

A mournful song, as the moon bowls,

Away, making room for the storm,

The world, in transition, transformed.

The rain, a lullaby, a soothing bed,

As both wolf and moon, lay down to rest,

The world, now still, in quiet slumber,

As rain and darkness, peacefully embrace each other.

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kadythethief · 4 months

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#zootropolis #zootopia #zoology #zoo #turtle tots #tortoise #cute animals #animals #baby animals #baby #zoo life

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duckmoss · 5 months

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People who work outside or in zoological settings favorite brand of khakis sound off

I like REI’s convertible pants specifically

#duck speaks #mine #biology #zoology #bioblr #sciblr #ecology #zoo life #work talk #khakis #zookeeper #zookeeping #biologist

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bumblingest-bee · 2 months

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jurassic park has a good philosophical message but unfortunately the only thing i ever take away from watching jurassic park is "god i wish i could go to jurassic park." like yeah it's a blatantly obvious don't create the torment nexus scenario, but this torment nexus has DINOSAURS.

#bee posts nonsense #the scene from jurassic world with the baby dinosaur petting zoo.... life could be a dream..#jurassic park #don't create the torment nexus

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head-post · 5 months

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Giant pandas returned from Edinburgh Zoo to China

Britain’s only giant pandas left for China on Monday after 12 years of unsuccessful attempts to breed in the Scottish capital.

Female Tian Tian (‘Sweetie’) and male Yang Guang (‘Sunshine’) were expected to produce offspring during their stay at Edinburgh Zoo, but the pair failed to conceive. Head of veterinary services at the Royal Zoological Society of Scotland (RZSS), Simon Girling, stated:

“It’s sad that Tian Tian hasn’t bred here. We would obviously really have liked her to have done so, but this is not unusual with giant pandas.”

The pandas were taken to the airport, loaded onto a cargo plane with a pallet of bamboo and sent back to China.

Learn more HERE

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meraxes-of-new-albion · 5 months

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What's it like being a zookeeper? What's your day like, and how'd you get into that?

Hi!

It's both really cool and really frustrating lol.

For context this is US, AZA based zoos; if you're elsewhere I have no idea whether the path that works here works elsewhere.

This got long so readmore.

I don't want to paint this career with rose tinted glasses. It's a passion career, and like all passion careers, you will be overworked, underpaid, and probably surrounded by reasonably privileged white people who can afford the overworked + underpaid. (I am absolutely no exception to this rule, btw.)

That said, a couple weeks ago I got to pet a Canada lynx. I've fed peanut butter to wolves, watched a secretary bird hunt, bonded with a Harris hawk, and made best friends with a plush-crested jay. You get the *coolest* stories, and it helps make the crappy parts of the job feel worthwhile; it's hard to resent your life when you're feeding bananas to a moose.

As far as career path goes, I'm still early in mine, but generally from talking to people, this is how it goes for most people: they go to a 4 year college/university for a degree in biology or something related -> they do at least one (unpaid :/) internship during college to get experience -> they work seasonally/part time at a zoo (generally several zoos, generally moving across the country multiple times)(this is where I'm at in my career) -> they get a full time, benefitted gig somewhere, and either work until a spot at a zoo they'd rather be at opens up, or they live the rest of their career there.

I'd like to stress this isn't the *only* career path - a lot of my coworkers here were dog trainers or what have you beforehand, a different coworker at a different zoo moved from guest services into a seasonal role and got hired on full time from there - but it is by far the most common one. This is also the reason we're pretty much all privileged white people - if you don't have family/friends who can subsidize three months worth of work that you don't get paid for, often you're a bit SOL. This is, very slowly, changing, apparently the MIlkwaukee zoo pays their interns for example, but it's still few and far between, and a very competitive field.

As far as my day to day goes, that changes a lot from zoo to zoo and even job to job - I'm a relief keeper here, so my day changes drastically based on which route I'm covering. At my previous zoo, I worked in their bird department, so my days were a bit more predictable; that was also a much bigger zoo so things like diet prep were handled by a completely different department rather than every route doing their own diets, or one person doing all of them every day. it's definitely worth investigating which kinds of animals you'd like to work with, and asking people who work with those specifically, if you can. For example, occasionally I serve as our second person to work the big cats - we have a two lock system so you can't accidentally let the lions out if you're cleaning in their yard, kind of thing. And I love our lions, and our snow leopards, but also... they're enormous, and terrifying, and sometimes uncooperative as anything. They're cool! But not an animal I'd want to work with every day.

General pros and cons:

Cons:

Pay :/ the mcdonalds I drive past every day would pay me a solid $3 more an hour. And probably give me paid time off.

You will work weekends and holidays. I've worked every holiday for the last two years.

Culture - so here's the thing. Zookeepers, as a group, are people who went individually in their lives "Hey i really suck at people skills. I know! I'll work with animals instead!" and then you put all of them together in the same room with animals they're emotionally invested in. Petty office drama, toxic management, and other such problems are common. We skew leftist and queer but that doesn't mean we have conflict resolution skills.

You are very, very, very likely to end up moving states at least once in your career.

pros:

No two days are ever the same. there's always something new to learn, some new problem to solve, something you all have to pull together and help with. Whether that be relocating an alligator, unloading a frozen meat delivery, a news crew hanging around, or something else, there's always something to change up the day.

The work you're doing never feels like a perpetual motion machine - it always has meaning to it. Everything you do benefits an animal you probably know personally, by name. You get to share those stories, those individuals, with the visitors who stop and ask; if you're lucky, they might go home and learn more about those animals. We all thrive by the concept of "You protect what you care about; you care about what you know; you know about what you are taught". Did I know kori bustards existed before I worked with them? no. Do I care now, and I'm glad to know they're no longer poached for fly fishing bait thanks to (i think) CITES in the 80s and 90s? You bet I do they're wonderful animals.

Your life, the everyday mundanity of it, becomes something that other people will always consider you the most interesting person in the room for. I don't get to work with said lynx very often anymore, due to staffing changes and whatnot, but every morning like clockwork Carson would meet you at the fence and follow you right along it to the den, because he knew you had his breakfast. It felt mundane, after a while, but it's always worth the moment of acknowledging "wow I actually get to hang out with some lynx today. That's pretty cool."

Hopefully this actually answers your question lol. It's not something I'd trade for anything, but I don't want to paint it as a world full of snuggling wolf puppies and rainbows and sunshine, because it's not that, either. It's sometimes grueling, frustrating, bitter work, full of frustrations about budgets and supplies and not having enough hours in the day. But then you go and you hang out with the giraffes for a couple minutes, and that in itself is wonderfully grounding.

so yeah. Hope this helps!

#asks #anon ask #zoo life #idk i don't really have a tag for this stuff lol

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zootoo · 6 months

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Racoon @ Pairi Daiza 2023 by Fabke.be 🔆📷

#Wasbeer #Racoon #Zoo #zoo life #Animal #Wildlife #Nature #white #grey #black #wood #outside #Pairi Daiza #Paradisio #dierentuin #Explore #exploration #InExplore #eyes #cute #cutie #flickr

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