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My name is Camille Slipetz-Bonnell and I'm an animal care-taker at the Ecomuseum zoo in Ste-Anne-De-Bellevue on the island of Montreal.
My job there is to primarily care for the animals. I feed them, clean up their habitats.
Do a visual checkup on the animal everyday to make sure that they're healthy and no injuries.
Perimeter check of their habitat. Make sure that everything's okay.
So it's generally, just taking care of the animals.
That's what I do.
So I've collected Tika's leftover food, which you can see here
and the reason why I do that for her is cause I want to know how much she's eating.
So I'm going to take leftover food. I am going to weigh it and I'm going to write it down in a log.
So we know exactly how much food she's eating to make sure that she's actually eating
because she doesn't finish her food so we want to see to make sure that she's actually eating.
And every time that you see me there breaking the snow and putting it in a bowl thought all the habitats that I have done,
it's cause we don't give them water when it's cold outside cause it just turns to ice, then they can't drink it.
So we give them some fresh snow so that they can eat the snow.
So that's why every time I'm breaking the snow, breaking the ice and putting it in the bowls,
it's cause I'm giving them water essentially.
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The Ecomuseum opens doors to the public in 1988 and it houses animals that are injured, orphaned or are born in captivity and can't return to the wild.
So, for example, we have a fox that is blind.
We have several birds that can't fly or only have one wing. So those are the kinds of animals we have at the zoo.
So this here is the food shed for the deer.
This is where we get their food from.
They get a mix of deer chow.
I'm working towards furthering my education in animal biology and possibly as a veterinarian in the future
So my motivation is really to keep working.
I really love what I do with the animals and it motivates me everyday to get up and work there and know that I get to hang out with them everyday.
And just do something that I really like and that's what motivates me to keep on studing so that I could continue to work with these animals in the future.
