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
“She’s become a bit of a national treasure,” one zookeeper said.
From Salon ● Jul. 13, 2025
It was during this era that Maurice Rodrigues, then a part-time zookeeper at the Bronx Zoo, first encountered Goode.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 25, 2024
“He’s a zookeeper threatened with death. Why would he lie?”
From "The Princess Bride" by William Goldman
She set up a dedicated, 24-hour capy-hotline, capable of responding to Samba sightings with a team of 20 on-call zookeepers.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 14, 2026
The zoo previously said Punch initially struggled to bond with the other monkeys, with only the toy and zookeepers providing him company after he was abandoned by his mother.
From BBC ● May 18, 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
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