Eldon Midgett
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 Born in 1990 to a UK mother and zoo a Maltese father, Alice
was raised for most of her life in Surrey's Woking. Her love
of comedy during her youth led her to attend acting classes at the Guildford School of Acting and
Italia Conti, and writing the school plays as she got older.
Alice's aspiration was to write comedy and be a performer,
but another dream was fulfilled when she began volunteering at a Wildlife Rehabilitation Centre in 2011, zoo while going to University.
From then on, Alice was captivated by animal care and worked
to take that path instead.
 Alice began her career in Zookeeping in 2014 at ZSL London Zoo where
she was involved with 3 different animal departments.
In 2015, she left the Zoo life
to manage a Children's Farm in North London but after a few years, decide to go back to exotic animals, relocating to Costa Rica for 7 months to study
Toucans and help with Sloth research.
.jpg) When she returned to England, she returned to
Zookeeping, and became a Carnivore Keeper at Shepreth Wildlife Park, where she stayed
for zoo nearly 5 years.
 During this time,
she founded the Keeper Educational Exchange Programme (or KEEP), a non-profit organisation that allows Zookeepers from
across the UK and beyond to gain knowledge from each other
through visiting other collections. She has spoken about the programme at
the ABWAK Symposium and zoo the BIAZA
Annual Conference and zoo the organisation is proud
to be BIAZA Endorsed and supported by Birdworld,
in Surrey.
In 2023,
zoo seeking a creative outlet,
Alice created the animal-comedy podcast: "Asshole Animals with Alice", that examines animal behaviour in a humorous fashion, with the help of experts across the world.
In the initial months of her podcast, she was accompanied by nature creatives
such as Chris Packham, zoo Megan McCubbin, Lucy Lapwing,
Jungle Jordan, Bertie Gregory and aims to continue talking to hilarious experts about animals with a bad
reputation.
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