Alexis, a new start: Volunteering at Zoo Negara Malaysia

Due to my elective module, I was assigned with 20 days of volunteering work and I have chosen to work for 7 out of 20 days in Zoo Negara Malaysia. I went there with a group of my course mate. There are several departments that we can serve as a volunteer. I had worked at Carnivore, Children’s world, Aquarium, Savannas,Holding (Bear) and Mammal Kingdom departments. In different department I have different experiences and will face different kind of animal. The job scope that included in the volunteering work are cleaning the cage, sweeping, preparing toys for animal, preparing food for the animal and of course feeding the animals. Undeniable that serving as a volunteer in Zoo Negara is very tiring and sometime the work can be quite heavy but throughout the process I tried to enjoy the work by interacting with my friends, the workers and the animals. We are also given a chance to get near to the animals such as leopards, hyenas, pumas, rhino and tigers. These precious experiences are simply awesome as we cannot be able to do that if we visited to Zoo Negara as a visitor. Besides that, by witnessing the working attitude of the zoo keeper makes me feel warm. The way they treat the animal with care, love and patience impressed me a lot and make me realised the important of showing care to the animals.

Carnivore Department