Experience with King Scholars

Career Investigations are King Conservation Science Scholars Study Within experiences. These experiences take King Scholars deeper within the intricacies of specific career roles here at Brookfield Zoo Chicago. Career Investigations are designed for students at the examination stage of career exploration who are looking to gain a deeper perspective into a particular section or area of a career field. Nonetheless, the best part of Career Investigations is that each one offers an immersive learning experience that provides a candid glance into the day to day lives of experts in particular roles and fields. The mission of our Career Investigations is to build a network of individuals with first-hand observations into conservation-focused and business-oriented professions for the benefit of making informed and reflective career pathway decisions.

What is most unique about Brookfield Zoo Chicago is that outside the traditional animal care and wellness, horticulture, and education roles, we can also offer Career Investigations that are rare. The Animal Enrichment and Behavior Career Investigation puts King Scholars alongside animal wellness and animal behavior specialists to assist and even co-lead investigative behavior and enrichment projects and the Animal Nutrition and Health Career Investigation puts King Scholars alongside a zoo nutritionist, to which there is less than 30 zoo nutritionist in the United States and Brookfield Zoo Chicago being one of the primary places that assisted in the training of several of them, to learn the fundamentals of the evaluation of the nutritional viability of diets and the distribution of them to animals in the zoo.