What's the hardest part of your job?

What's the hardest part of 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...

The hardest part of the job as a zookeeper is, unfortunately, when animals die, which doesn't happen too often. But animals get old like people and they do die. And it's sad because if you've worked for an animal for many, many years as a zookeeper, perhaps every single day for many years, it is difficult. But it's just one of the downsides of the job of a zookeeper. And I'll probably say a less serious downside of the job as a zookeeper is perhaps a January morning when it's zero degrees and I'm perhaps on the big gorilla island trying to break the ice with my bare hands on the surrounding moat. That's not a great part of the job as a zookeeper.