While I was enjoying the sights of Sydney - Amy was hard at work doing work experience at Taronga Zoo. She worked from 7:45am to 3:15pm from Monday to Friday. She was working in the Primate and Ungulate - hoofed animal- area. She spent a lot of time cleaning cages and preparing food- chopping up 30kg of carrots one day for the chimpanzees. She worked with the gorillas, chimpanzees, giraffes, zebras, white face gibbons, tapirs, pygmy hippos. She was exhausted by the end of the week but had wonderful experience. She was not very impressed with the chimpanzees- they were very messy and very filthy- their cage took 5 hours to clean!
She did get to sponge down a pygmy hippo, feed the giraffe and also got to see the new born baby elephant.
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