 Well, my name's Ahmed. I study chemistry, biology, maths and sociology. I'm in my first year of A-level and after that I go to uni. Hopefully I'll have a career path in medicine, but I'm not really sure about it, so I'm still deciding. There's many different ways that you can get into zoo keeping. I obviously did a biology A-level that led on to a zoology degree and then sort of did some volunteering and got in that way. Lots of people do animal care courses and come in that way. But I've found that my way has kept my options open of where I want to go and what I want to do. Is he chewing your mic there? So what kind of A-levels? It has to be biology. Biology is definitely the most helpful in the zoo environment. I've actually got a chemistry and physics degree as well. But biology is used more than those two. We obviously do a lot of conservation in other countries. So it's really helpful to know about different kinds of conservation work which is covered in a lot of the biology A-level. It's also really helpful to have an idea of what the vets are talking about when they come along using their big words. Biological science is in some ways the most obvious degree programme, but there's also biochemistry, biomedical sciences and more specialist degree programmes like neuroscience. Biology is a very broad subject and a lot of what we do these days is trying to bring different strands of it together and look at the interrelations and the connections. But also quite a few of our students will go on to do something completely different. The last couple of years a few of them have gone on to do law degrees. So how has biology helped you in your profession? Well, intellectual property law is dealing with inventions and because I have a biological background I deal with mainly biological and chemical inventions and so fundamentally whenever I have a capacity of client I have to deal with something I have to understand with the technology and so having a scientific background and a particular biological and chemical background to be able to sort of read our applications here or read a pattern or something I can actually understand what's going on. So the average day for a keeper you get up early and we get here four, eight o'clock and then the team will kind of get together and the reason we all get together first thing in the morning is to all discuss what happened yesterday. So we can all tell maybe if something was lame or something hasn't eaten we can pass that information on to the different keepers that are working that day. Then we all go off to our own sections, we check everything's okay, we haven't had any problems overnight then we start going around giving the breakfast then we kind of got to get the place looking nice and clean before the visitors and the public get in. So the next few hours will be when we start picking up the poo and having that kind of thing raking it up, cleaning the windows. How is it like working with animals? Do you find it challenging? It is challenging, every day is a challenge, every day is quite different as well but as you can imagine it's quite rewarding and relatively fun as well. So what other kind of subjects in ELA board help? Well I did biology and chemistry and chemistry really helps because obviously when you talk about drug development it quite often comes down to particular chemicals and physics can also help in terms of medical devices. Here at the trust we are looking at healthcare benefits and we are very much focused on medical applications of drugs, devices, vaccines. What's the kind of average wage you don't mind me asking? The average from the London University or from us is about 20,000 a year. If you want a career that uses your biological interest or knowledge that will usually require you to get at least a master's qualification or a PhD. What I would say is that if you are not going for medicinal dentistry where obviously there is a career at the end of it if you are doing a pure subject like biology or biochemistry do what you enjoy because whatever kind of job you are looking for the better the degree that you come out with the better your chance of getting one and at this level you will do best at the subject that you are really interested in. If you don't mind me asking what's the average wage after three years? When I started she was 20 years ago I mean it was competitive with bankers after a couple of years and junior doctors that sort of thing so the rewards are great but you work hard for it but it's a really interesting work as well. When you start it's pretty low depending where you work obviously this is a better place than some of the others but for where you are you can live on it and you can also you can make your way up, you can become a senior keeper then you can go into specialising on certain aspects you might want to go into conservation in the field. Now I know there's more careers available if I take a science degree like neuroscience, biochemistry, all of that because I didn't know about all these career policies so they could help a lot of people deciding what they want to do.