How physically demanding is your job?

How physically demanding is your job?

Daniel Simmonds (Zookeeper) gives expert video advice on: What did you have to do to become a zookeeper?; Is it a well paid job?; Do you become very attached to the animals you work with? and more...

This job as a zookeeper is a very, very physically demanding job, especially if you work with gorillas. They're very big animals and they make a lot of mess and their bedding alone is enormous so you need quite a lot of fitness just to move things around. It's constantly a case of rushing around the whole site. We're a 35 acre site. Sometimes things will be at one end of the site and you're obviously at the other end, and that's just the way it goes. So you are very active during the day as a zookeeper and it is a very demanding job physically.