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Feeding the iguanas.

#zoo #zookeeper #zoo animals #iguana #crickets #feeding #lizard #reptile

This cutie came for a cuddle on my lap the other week

#gif #kinkajou #baby animals #baby kinkajou #zoo #zoo animals #zookeeper #rainforest #cute #cute animals

Donating some water colour paintings for a showcase. 100% of the money made on the paintings go to bird conservation projects and charities

#painting #watercolor #paint #art #macaw #birds #parrot #charity #conservation

Bit late but poppy wishes you all a happy red nose day in support of comic relief! 😂

#kinkajou #baby animals #animals #zoo #zooanimals #red nose day #comic relief #zookeeper #red nose #cute #cute animals

At 3 months old she is almost an expert climber. Still a little wobbly but practice makes perfect.

#kinkajou #baby kinkajou #climber #potos flavus #zoo #zoo animals #zoo keeper #cute animals #baby animals

The common marmosets were wary of their new enrichment at first but now they love it.

#common marmoset #marmoset #monkey #enrichment #zoo #zookeeper #zoo animals #cute animals #cute monkey

Some more watercolour that I have completed. The toucan is a channel billed toucan the one at work is called coco.

#toucan #channel billed toucan #tiger #tigers #snow leopard #leopard #drawing #painting #watercolor #watercolour art #art #artists on tumblr

What I do on my days off, experiment with watercolour.

#watercolor #kingfisher #hummingbird #tree frog #red eyed tree frog #painting #art #drawing #sketch

Zoo conversations Guest: "What's that other bird in with the parrots?" *pointing at tortoise. Zookeeper: *blank stare. "That's a tortoise."

#zoo problems #zoo #zookeeper #parrots #tortoise #silly questions

Mummy and daughter

#kinkajou #zoo animals #zoo #zookeeper #potos flavus #honey bear #cute animals

Evening cuddles from the cutest kinkajou in Scotland

#kinkajou #kinkajou baby #baby animals #zoo #zookeeper #zoo animals #Scotland #cuddle #cute animals

Meet Neeps & Tatties - named by the public. Very Scottish names!

#emperor tamarin #tamarin #monkey #marmoset #zoo #zookeeper #zoo animals #cute animals #neepsandtatties

aquaristlifeforme

Zoos prevent extinction. This is why I support zoos. This is why the world should support zoos.

Meme credit goes to the zookeepers at www.facebook.com/ZoosSavingSpecies @zoossavingspecies

liveinatreehouse

As someone who despises zoos, this is an appreciated post. I 100% support saving species, but I’ve come across too many zoos who simply exit to profit from showing animals off, and keeping them in horrendous “habitats” (if you can call them that). I would however prefer them to just have conservation programs and release animals back into the wild. Animals in zoos for pleasure of people seeing them will never be acceptable to me.

aquaristlifeforme

Well make sure you read the AZA standards here https://www.aza.org/assets/2332/aza-accreditation-standards.pdf So that you know what accredited zoos are doing for their animals and how they go about caring for them. The zoos you have come across sound like they probably aren’t accredited. And if these good, accredited zoos didn’t have an admission price, they wouldn’t be able to fund the conservation programs and releases that you want. Or feed the animals. Or share information with the public. Or pay their passionate keepers and biologists. Or keep improving their habitats.