Zookeepers. What animals do you most enjoy taking care of and which are the worst?

I did a behind-the-scenes article on a zoo once and spent time with zookeepers and vets.

A really chilled conversation, trust in Jersey, Channel Islands.

The lemurs were not kept in cages because they needed space to roam from tree to tree.

The zoo figured out that they had their area that was home, but they were free to leave any time they wanted.

There was nothing to stop them wandering off.

They didn't leave.

They were happy there.

Apart from the father of the group who would, about once a month, decide he needed a break from the family and head over about 400 yards down the road to the pub.

They would get a call from the pub saying that the furry little guy is hanging out in their garden again.

Most of the time he'd just wander back.

People and animals truly are more alike than we think.

It sounds like a regular English dad wandering down to the pub to take a break.

My sister is a zookeeper. We asked her and her keeper friends which animal they would least like to be trapped in a room with.

They all immediately, unanimously agreed on one animal. Chimp. As one keeper put it,

if a lion gets out of a cage, I would run and help the public and other keepers. If a

chimp got out of its cage, I would run to my car and drive away. I did animal control for almost

a decade. Wasn't afraid of nothing except chimps.

I became a scared little girl when we got a loose chimp call.

I don't blame anyone for being afraid of chimps.

I mean, I'm pretty sure I heard that recently there's been sightings that chimps use like sharpened sticks now.

Yeah, I'd be scared too.

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