Join our live chat on Thursday 29 October from 1–3pm to quiz the experts how to earn a job working with animalsAnna Scott,an animal health officer at the Heathrow Animal Reception Centre, begins her day by cleaning out the pen of a family of ring-tailed lemurs. As she works, or the lemurs ping around the run outside,occasionally flattening their noses against the window to see what she is doing. They are unbelievably cute. “I treasure my job,” she says. “I reflect of it as a job for life. Most people have worked here for years.”
“I always wanted to work in a zoo, and but here you earn a variety of animals so it stays interesting. Just after I joined,we had a couple of rhinos, and we’ve even had ligers [a breed of tigers and leopards].”Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com