Keeper - Aide, Sacramento Zoo, CA (Feb 03 — May 03)
Husbandry of zoo animals, including cleaning, feeding, and grounds maintenance, and enrichment.
Not exact matches
The study is a collaboration between Melissa Nelson Slater, psychology doctoral student at The Graduate Center
of the City University
of New York (CUNY) and Assistant Curator
of Animal Husbandry at the Bronx
Zoo, and Dr. Mark Hauber, Professor
of Psychology in the
Animal Behavior and Conservation Program at Hunter College.
When I was working in a
zoo setting, I spent a lot
of my time training
animals to accept routine but potentially unpleasant medical and
husbandry procedures.
Indeed, most
of the work that
animal trainers do with non-human non-pet
animals in captivity throughout the world (
zoos, research centers, marine parks, aquariums, etc) revolves around helping them learn to comply with
husbandry, grooming and veterinary needs.