I started at the zoo at a time when the average zookeeper had a fifth or sixth-grade education. That has changed so much today. 95% of the keepers, applicants, people who apply for a job as keeper at St. Louis. 95% have a degree. That degree is so common that just recently they’ve changed the requirements for keeper that now a bachelor’s degree is mandatory or they don’t even accept the application. That wasn’t always the case. So someone without a degree hoping to come in and work your way up for the top, probably not gonna happen. It seems like they need that degree.
