Keepers at the National Zoo and Aquarium give media a peek into their day-to-day jobs on Internationals Zookeepers' Day.
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00:31 - It's absolutely completely different to an office job.
00:34 It's our entire life.
00:36 It's a love job.
00:37 It's something that I've always wanted to do.
00:40 It's something that I take home with me every single day.
00:43 Something that I come to work and I'm completely focused
00:45 with every time I'm at work.
00:47 I'm completely in the moment.
00:49 And it's just something that's,
00:50 it's an amazing experience to be able to do something
00:53 like this with your life.
00:55 - Simba is one of two Goodfellow street kangaroos
00:57 here at the National Zoo.
00:58 They are a critically endangered species
01:00 and part of a important breeding program.
01:03 They might not look like a kangaroo,
01:05 but they are actually part of the kangaroo family.
01:06 And they're also the only kangaroo species
01:08 that can actually move their feet independently.
01:11 Every other kangaroo species can only move at the same time.
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