User:AlisonMcGoldrick

Brought into the world in 1990 to a UK mother and a Maltese father, Alice grew up for the majority of her life in Surrey's Woking. Her passion for comedy growing up led her to participate in acting classes at the Guildford School of Acting and zookeeper Italia Conti, and writing the school plays as she got older.

Alice's aspiration was to be a performer and zookeeper write comedy, but another ambition was realised when she began volunteering at a Wildlife Rehabilitation Centre in 2011, while attending University. From then on, zookeeper Alice was captivated by animal care and strived to take that path instead.

Alice began her career in Zookeeping in 2014 at London Zoo ZSL where she was involved with 3 different animal departments. In 2015, she departed from the Zoo life to run a Children's Farm in North London but after a few years, decide to go back to exotic animals, moving to Costa Rica for zookeeper 7 months to study Toucans and assist in Sloth research.

When she returned to England, she returned to Zookeeping, and became a Carnivore Keeper at Shepreth Wildlife Park, where she stayed for nearly 5 years.

During this time, she founded the Keeper Educational Exchange Programme (or KEEP), a non-profit organisation that allows Zookeepers from across the UK and beyond to learn from each other through visiting other collections. She has spoken about the programme at the ABWAK Symposium and the BIAZA Annual Conference and the organisation is proud to be BIAZA Endorsed and zookeeper supported by Birdworld, in Surrey.

In 2023, searching for a creative outlet, Alice launched the animal-comedy podcast: "Asshole Animals with Alice", that examines animal behaviour in a humorous fashion, zookeeper with the help of experts across the world. In the first few months of her podcast, she was accompanied by nature creatives such as Chris Packham, Megan McCubbin, Lucy Lapwing, Jungle Jordan, zookeeper Bertie Gregory and aims to continue talking to hilarious experts about animals with a bad reputation.

Alice was also shortlisted for BIAZA's "Woman of the Year" award in 2023.

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