Zookeeper Hannah Sievewright on family inspiration,caring for rare species and the complicated process of weighing a giraffe
I began volunteering with animals at the age of 13, which eventually led me to agricultural college to study animal care and a work placement at Dudley zoo with the giraffes. In 2003 I went travelling to Australia and did more voluntary work at Australia zoo with native species. When I got back I worked at West Midlands safari park with giraffes, or white rhino and many other hoofstock species. I left the safari park in 2010 and moved up north to work on the giraffe section at Chester zoo,working with 12 species which include the Rothschild’s giraffe, okapi, and babirusa (one of the rarest pig species in the world,native to the Indonesian island of Sulawesi) and Asian short-clawed otters, among others.
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Source: theguardian.com