Healesville Sanctuary - Keeper For A Day

Keeper for a Day at Healesville Sanctuary is designed as a careers program for secondary school students in years 9 and above. We joined the program and followed a group of students as they went behind the scenes the Yarra Valley's most popular attraction

The aim of the program is to give students a feel for what's involved in the everyday life of a zoo keeper. At Healesville Sanctuary this means working with native Australian animals. It's a full day of activity that includes enclosure maintenance, animal health checks, egg making (plaster eggs used in the birds of prey show), animal enrichment, keeper talks, food preparation and animal handling.

Numbers are limited to 20 students, so if you want to participate in this program we suggest you book well in advance.

We were impressed by the enthusiasm of the group we spent the day with.

Category:

Travel & Events

Tags:

• Healesville Sanctuary
• YarraValley Attraction
• Keeper For A Day
• Zoo

[AndFergYou]

That was an awsome day, I enjoyed every minute of it =D

[robsitch]

Great story - great program. Thanks.