This was some of the pictures I took while I was at Adventure Camp. The camp was for college students interested in working in the animal field when they graduate. I basically was a zookeeper for a week. Everyday we would wake up at 5:30am get ready & head to meet up with all the zookeepers. I was assigned the to the large & small Primates & the caverns which held all the reptiles, kookaburras, fruit bats, mongoose lemurs & cotton top tamarins. My job was to feed, clean & observe the animals making sure they were all healthy & safe. We had to come up with daily enrichments to keep them busy. I also learned the nutrition aspect for each animal in my care. I got to be involved with the gorillas training sessions. My day usually ended at 5:30 depending on the care for the animals. The zookeeper hours that I worked ran about 12 hour shifts a day. It is a very hard job to be a zookeeper but an experience that I will never forget. I had a great time working with everyone @ Busch Gardens & made new friends.
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