zookeeper

First, zookeepers convince the animal to lean against a mesh barrier.

So Schulz and his colleagues worked with zookeepers at Zoo Atlanta to take a peek.

Valerie Schultz, 26, is a zookeeper at the National Zoo and spends her days tending to primates.

Soon he will try fruit and softened biscuits, zookeepers said.

Transmission was felt to have occurred from an asymptomatic but positive zookeeper “who was actively shedding virus,” according to the Agriculture Department.

When a tiger attacks a zookeeper, it is "making a noise like a locomotive."