About me:
Born in 1990 to a British mother and a Maltese father,Alice was raised for most of her life in Woking, Surrey.Her love of comedy growing up led her to participate in acting classes at Italia Conti and the Guildford School of Acting, and authoring the school plays as she got older.
Alice's dream was to be a performer and write comedy, but another ambition was fulfilled when she began volunteering at a
Wildlife Rehabilitation Centre in 2011, while
attending University. From then on, Alice was hooked on animal care and strived to pursue that career instead.
Alice started her Zookeeping journey in 2014 at
ZSL London Zoo where she worked on 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 7 months to research Toucans and help with Sloth research.
When she returned to England, she made her way back to
Zookeeping, and became a Carnivore Keeper at Shepreth Wildlife Park, where she remained for nearly
5 years.
During this time, she founded the Keeper Educational
Exchange Programme (or KEEP), a not-for-profit organisation that allows Zookeepers from across the UK and beyond to
gain knowledge from each other through spending time
at 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 sponsored 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, 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, Bertie Gregory and aims to
continue talking to hilarious experts about animals with a
bad reputation.
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