zookeeper
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"It's clear who won!" one zookeeper exclaimed excitedly.
From Barron's ● Jun. 6, 2026
“It’s not as messy as ‘Tiger King’ was,” said Josh Webb, a zookeeper there from April to November of 2025.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 2, 2026
The zookeeper and the actor set off sparks, winning the relay against Earle and Season 33 champ Joey Graziadei of “The Bachelor” fame.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 12, 2025
“She’s become a bit of a national treasure,” one zookeeper said.
From Salon ● Jul. 13, 2025
At one o’clock Jan will come for half an hour to check on us poor forsaken souls, like a zookeeper.
From "The Diary of a Young Girl" by Anne Frank
Many of the zoo's animals are trained to perch on a scale while zookeepers note down their measurements, but others will need to be tempted with a strategic snack.
From BBC ● Aug. 24, 2026
Since Samba escaped from her zoo, she’s outmaneuvered zookeepers, drones and search parties.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 16, 2026
They invited over 30 experts from around the world who cared about caribou—including Indigenous peoples, academics, zookeepers, and reindeer experts from Finland—to independently review the evidence for each assumption.
From Slate ● Apr. 28, 2026
Earlier this month, Punch's situation began looking up when zookeepers at Ichikawa City Zoo, near Tokyo, posted that he was gradually integrating with a troop of monkeys -- "playfully poking others and getting scolded".
From Barron's ● Feb. 20, 2026
However, all writers about them, from Romans to modern zookeepers, decry their irascible temper and their nasty habit of biting people.
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
