Do you know a young aspiring zoo keeper? The Junior Keeper day experience offers young people aged 7-13 years old the chance to spend a day learning about a range of species and what it takes to be a zookeeper for our wonderfully unique animals from cleaning and feeding to habitat design and enrichment making workshop.
Price includes the experience itself, a packed lunch prepared by the chefs of Halfpenny Green Wine Estate. A Wild Zoological Park junior keeper T-shirt and a zoo keeper lanyard. The experience begins at 10am and finishes at 3pm.
In a small group, you will arrive at the zoo for an induction with course leader Keeper Ben and the rest of our team of expert zoo keepers.
Once kitted up, you're ready to join the team! Visit each animal section to get a taster of what it's like to look after our animals. You'll be cleaning, feeding, and making up enrichment. Ask our experts everything you've ever wanted to know about zookeeping and receive a certificate at the end! This is a hands on interactive experience including animal handling, craft, talks and demonstrations.
Children do not to be accompanied by an adult. All our staff are DBS certified. Participants can be dropped at the zoo at 10am and picked up at 3pm.
