Hamilton - Sam Kudeweh, Acting Zoo Director
Samantha Kudeweh is Acting Zoo Director at Hamilton Zoo.
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What animals do you work with?
A range of different animals
Why did you become a zoo keeper?
A desire to help save the world
Your funniest/most memorable animal story?
Any memorable stories from the vet clinic? Sewing up monkey
scrotums in Thailand
What animal would you like to have in your
backyard?
Tortoise
What animal would you most like to see in the
wild?
Javan rhino, as there are very few of them left.
Where in the world have you worked and what animals did you
treat there?
Australia and Thailand, working with monkeys, bears and
binturongs
Which animal do you relate to the most?
White rhinos
What do you love most about your job?
Animal interaction
What would you change about your job?
I'd like to see more zoo keepers enter the industry
If you could make one change to help save endangered
animals what would it be?
Contraception for all humanity
Advice for future zoo keepers?
Learn to enjoy rain, poo and repetitive movements
Tell us an animal joke
What did the grape say when the rhino stepped on it?
Nothing, it just let out a little wine.
