zoo keepers

Simple text and photographs present zoo keepers and their role in the community.

Examines the various tasks that zookeepers perform during the day including checking on the animals, feeding and caring for them, and how zookeepers help the community.

A simple introduction to the clothing, tools, schooling, and work of zoo keepers.

Recounts how three elephants in a Tokyo zoo were put to death because of the war, focusing on the pain shared by the elephants and the keepers who must starve them.

Looks at some of the many tasks done by people who work at zoos.

A.J. and his fellow third-graders from Ella Mentry School, including new student Alexia, go on a field trip to the zoo, where they meet a very strange zookeeper.

Explains what zookeepers do and how they work with the animals.

Tells the story of Helen Martini, the woman who became the first woman zookeeper at the Bronx Zoo after her experiences caring for animal cubs brought home by her husband gave her the idea to start an animal nursery at the zoo in 1944.

Four-year-old Sam's appearance as a zookeeper at his nursery school's Future Job Day leads him to a number of exciting activities and discoveries, including reading.