Tony Dobbs

 

Position:  UK—Ireland Publications Coordinator

 

Hi, my name is Tony and I’m a senior keeper on mammals North at ZSL London Zoo. I started at London in 2007 but prior to that I worked at Paignton Zoo from 2000. While at Paignton I was heavily involved with the development of the enrichment programmes that are currently being used. When I first started at the zoo enrichment was the domain of the science department but over the years I was involved in the gradual switch to keepers becoming heavily involved and actually developing their own devices and timetables.

 

I have presented talks on enrichment and the timetable system that I helped develop at a number of conferences; I like to think that those who have seen my talks would hopefully remember them, although not always for the right reasons… Now that I’m at London Zoo I have started the process of developing a complete enrichment timetable system and a system of monitoring and assessing the enrichment that’s used.

 

 

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