Zookeepers at Canberra's National Zoo and Aquarium

Keepers at the National Zoo and Aquarium give media a peek into their day-to-day jobs on Internationals Zookeepers' Day.

Transcript

00:00 (upbeat music)

00:02 (upbeat music)

00:31 - It's absolutely completely different to an office job.

00:34 It's our entire life.

00:36 It's a love job.

00:37 It's something that I've always wanted to do.

00:40 It's something that I take home with me every single day.

00:43 Something that I come to work and I'm completely focused

00:45 with every time I'm at work.

00:47 I'm completely in the moment.

00:49 And it's just something that's,

00:50 it's an amazing experience to be able to do something

00:53 like this with your life.

00:55 - Simba is one of two Goodfellow street kangaroos

00:57 here at the National Zoo.

00:58 They are a critically endangered species

01:00 and part of a important breeding program.

01:03 They might not look like a kangaroo,

01:05 but they are actually part of the kangaroo family.

01:06 And they're also the only kangaroo species

01:08 that can actually move their feet independently.

01:11 Every other kangaroo species can only move at the same time.

01:14 (upbeat music)

01:17 [BLANK_AUDIO]