Or am like, oh, right, noted that the wolverine had been m I’ll make sure the keepers are aware of that. So it’s this constant looking, this constant keeping your eyes open, this constant listening to your colleagues at whatever level. Read More
Ba basically, you know, the, the one thing that I used to hate, and I used to constantly pull staff up on it, is the, the car park at Highland Wildlife Park was in the middle of the zoo, weirdly. And, and so I, I’d see keepers going from their… Read More
You, now, this may be the same, but you talk about professionals being on a constant, somewhat learning curve. What does that mean?… Read More
Also, your decision making, your ability to decide stuff in extreme circumstances accelerates because you’ve done stuff like this before. This is gonna sound warped. I love emergencies. For whatever reason or the way my brain works, I’m able to just roll straight into taking charge of the situation and… Read More
Right. What’s the decision making process?… Read More
And I’ve done this with a, with a numer, numerous zookeeper classes, part of the Spar College zookeeper course. None of them hadn’t occurred to them. They all knew the story, but they didn’t understand the variables. And it’s been in the game long enough that you’ve seen enough stuff… Read More
What if the ricochet kills the kid?… Read More
What if the gorilla goes down on top of the kid and you can see no one in the class?… Read More
Because here’s two other examples where a kid fell into gorilla enclosures, the kid didn’t get harmed, the gorillas never got harmed. They dealt with it a different way. Maybe you do need to shoot the gorilla, but you got concrete all over there. Read More
Did you do your zoo history?… Read More
Do you shoot the gorilla? Yeah, unfortunately. Yeah. Really?… Read More
How would you deal with it?… Read More
You’re, you’re duty manager that day. You’ve been in the job 10 years, you’re now your weekend duty manager. The kid falls into the gorilla moat on your watch. How do you deal with it? And then, you know, and then people come up with what you, the answers you… Read More
And then your learning curve levels off again until the next emergency, and it goes up. So when you’ve seen it go wrong enough times, when something goes wrong on your watch, small child falling into a gorilla moat, for example, you will be better prepared for managing that emergency. Read More
You mentioned a time factor. What do you mean This is alright to use, to use extreme examples, there are people that come into the zoo business with a qualification and they expect to do maybe three, four years as a zookeeper. And then they expect to be promoted rather… Read More
What qualifications do you need?… Read More
And I actually made a point of saying, you know, if your kid wants to go into the zoo business and they’re planning to do a zoology degree, mom, dad, don’t waste your money. That that is not the qualification they need. If they’re gonna go for a, a college… Read More
Absolutely not. So I did a, a career day here at London Zoo a couple years ago and was asked to come down and the, it was, and it was all about, okay, right, if you want to break into the, into the zoo business, you know how to go… Read More
Will it teach you how to look after animals in captivity?… Read More
No. Will you learn anything about the likely species you’ll be working with?… Read More