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work experience in german zoos
Hi, I'm studying Animal Management - Behaviour and Welfare at Chester Uni and I'm learning German on my own initiative. We have a compulsory 6-week work placement and I'm hoping do it in a zoo somewhere in Germany or Austria.
Could anyone help with suggestions how that might work? Do you know which are the best zoos in Germany?
I know it's a long shot, but I'd appreciate any tips!
Could anyone help with suggestions how that might work? Do you know which are the best zoos in Germany?
I know it's a long shot, but I'd appreciate any tips!
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Hi, I'm studying Animal Management - Behaviour and Welfare at Chester Uni and I'm learning German on my own initiative. We have a compulsory 6-week work placement and I'm hoping do it in a zoo somewhere in Germany or Austria.
Could anyone help with suggestions how that might work? Do you know which are the best zoos in Germany?
I know it's a long shot, but I'd appreciate any tips!
Could anyone help with suggestions how that might work? Do you know which are the best zoos in Germany?
I know it's a long shot, but I'd appreciate any tips!
Berlin and Munich are probably the largest ones. Nuremberg is the biggest palce for dolphins in europe i think, and recently gaiend publicity with the ice bear.
Dunno if they'll think you're overqualified. Most caretakers in germany only have education at GCSE level (Realschule/Hauptschule)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Zoos_in_Germany
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Dunno if they'll think you're overqualified. Most caretakers in germany only have education at GCSE level (Realschule/Hauptschule)
Dunno if they'll think you're overqualified. Most caretakers in germany only have education at GCSE level (Realschule/Hauptschule)
That's interesting. Here, in the UK they're starting to raise the level of qualifications you need to become a zookeeper..
As a German, can you say (roughly) how much is the salary in Euros of a zookeeper there?
I know this job is not about the money, but still..
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That's interesting. Here, in the UK they're starting to raise the level of qualifications you need to become a zookeeper..
As a German, can you say (roughly) how much is the salary in Euros of a zookeeper there?
I know this job is not about the money, but still..
As a German, can you say (roughly) how much is the salary in Euros of a zookeeper there?
I know this job is not about the money, but still..
oh it can be quite different i guess.
since a lot of zoos are governemtn owned you'D be paid around 2k-2.2k€ according to http://www.sueddeutsche.de/app/jobkarriere/gehaltstest/?action=detail&detail=gehalt&id=233&searchAction=abisz
Alternatively around 10€per hour.
Internships are normaly unpaid (as often with governemnt owned instiutions)
And eventho msot have vocational education, i'm pretty sure there will also be a couple of graduates, even if most will be the manager type. You'll obvuisoyl need the odd biologist, psychologist and other experts to run a zoo properly.
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I live in Vienna and the Schoenbrunn zoo here has a very good reputation - managed to breed the only (naturally conceived!) panda baby in Europe and they're very proud of that
Have a look at www.zoovienna.at for details.
I'm studying Vet Medicine here and we had a course on zoo management at the zoo last semester which was very interesting. The staff there are very very motivated and really enthusiastic about the place. They have regular zoo keeper students on placement from the Animal Carer (Tierpfleger) school which is based at my uni as these students have to work with pets, lab animals, horses, farm animals and zoo animals in order to qualify as a Tierpfleger in Austria. Info about the Tierpfleger school is here, but all in German: http://www.vu-wien.ac.at/uploads/media/ Tierpflegerschule.pdf Sounds like the system is different in Germany.
If you were doing a dissertation or something that would probably be no problem as everywhere you go in the zoo there are students with clipboards observing some behaviour or other! But as for actual work experience, I think that might be harder as you'd be competing with all the other Tierpfleger students...still worth a try though
It's a really nice zoo, really good conditions for the animals and always loads of babies (if that's any measure of how well the animals are doing....currently siberian tiger twins, polar bear twins, baby sealion, baby lions (with some berber blood in them), baby hippo and of course the baby panda - Fu Long )
Alternatively there is a great alpine zoo (Alpenzoo) in Innsbruck - specialises only in mountain animals with some very interesting species like the #Lammergeier (Bearded Vulture) which would be hard to find elsewhere. There's also the small (and financially scandal-ridden!) Herberstein in Styria (close to Graz) which despite its financial problems (owner fiddled taxes) has a good animal reputation
I have absolutely no idea about payment, sorry
I live in Vienna and the Schoenbrunn zoo here has a very good reputation - managed to breed the only (naturally conceived!) panda baby in Europe and they're very proud of that
Have a look at www.zoovienna.at for details. I'm studying Vet Medicine here and we had a course on zoo management at the zoo last semester which was very interesting. The staff there are very very motivated and really enthusiastic about the place. They have regular zoo keeper students on placement from the Animal Carer (Tierpfleger) school which is based at my uni as these students have to work with pets, lab animals, horses, farm animals and zoo animals in order to qualify as a Tierpfleger in Austria. Info about the Tierpfleger school is here, but all in German: http://www.vu-wien.ac.at/uploads/media/ Tierpflegerschule.pdf Sounds like the system is different in Germany.
If you were doing a dissertation or something that would probably be no problem as everywhere you go in the zoo there are students with clipboards observing some behaviour or other! But as for actual work experience, I think that might be harder as you'd be competing with all the other Tierpfleger students...still worth a try though
It's a really nice zoo, really good conditions for the animals and always loads of babies (if that's any measure of how well the animals are doing....currently siberian tiger twins, polar bear twins, baby sealion, baby lions (with some berber blood in them), baby hippo and of course the baby panda - Fu Long
)Alternatively there is a great alpine zoo (Alpenzoo) in Innsbruck - specialises only in mountain animals with some very interesting species like the #Lammergeier (Bearded Vulture) which would be hard to find elsewhere. There's also the small (and financially scandal-ridden!) Herberstein in Styria (close to Graz) which despite its financial problems (owner fiddled taxes) has a good animal reputation
I have absolutely no idea about payment, sorry
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