hey guys my name is Andy I am a
zookeeper here at the Cincinnati Zoo and
Botanical Garden so we wanted to take
you guys on inside addition calm through
a day in the life of a zookeeper
during the corona virus pandemic so
let's let's check it out
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you can see your clothes I do walk to
work every day this is what my walk
looks like in the morning
this is Nia she's 10 years old
she's one of our fastest two days
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I've put in three people here at
Cincinnati Zoo for about three years now
I've always wanted to work with animals
I found my passion
mixing education with zoo keeping so
that's where I found my job here at the
cheetah encounter in the cat Ambassador
Program at the Cincinnati Zoo it's a
great way that I'm able to help save the
animals that I love like cheetahs
through education and the great
conservation work that we do here at the
Cincinnati Zoo all year round
it is weird not having guests around but
all our animals are still out here still
getting all the great care that they
need it's just really weird walking
around here on such beautiful days with
no guests around
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so the Cincinnati Zoo is also one of two
accredited Botanical Gardens in the
state of Ohio and every spring we have
over a hundred thousand tulips here for
people to enjoy it's kind of sad now
because the only people that are
enjoying them are us zoo employees we're
able to take our Cheetahs on walks
during the day which we normally are not
able to do when the zoo is open we only
do that in the morning before visitors
come
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so here's a zoom we've had a few changes
we're all wearing protective PPE so that
includes face masks that were wearing
all times we are in contact with animals
or around other staff we're maintaining
our six-foot distance amongst other
keepers and staff here at the zoo also
before we're interacting with our
animals we're being sure to wash our
hands making sure everything staying
nice and clean so we are healthy and our
animals here are staying healthy as well
all right so this is a breakfast for our
four year old cheetah red this is just
as breakfast they eat about three pounds
of raw beef every single day so with ten
cheetahs you can imagine that is a lot
of food for them so we're still making
sure they're getting all their really
good diet here
the part of my day here at the zoo is
providing enrichment and fun for all the
animals here
of course including Chris the cheetah
cub and her companion puppy remiss here
so Chris was an orphan cheetah cub her
mom could not provide for her about why
she was hand raised to be part of our
cat Ambassador Program here at the zoo
have any siblings we want to make sure
we still gave her a sibling to play and
grow up with and that's where Lina's
came in here so we adopted remus from a
local shelter to be Chris's companion
and always wanted to help them and help
save them so being as these paper Thank
You Rivas it's one of the best ways I
get to camp I get to train the animals
and I also get to educate people about
them and how they could help save the
cheetah in the wild as well so it is my
dream job
I love working here it's a little hard
right now doing the corona virus
pandemic but we're still here I still
very thankful and grateful for my job
and then I get to come to work every day
see this adorable little things you know
it's always great at the end of the day
walk home feeling accomplished but I
often like to stop by and see if one of
my favorite animals here at the zoo is
out so it looks like Tammy is here this
is baby
we hear that inside addition calm but
you guys really like Fiona so came out
to say hi as you can see everyone's
happy and healthy here this is Maddie's
and thanks for following along guys
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