{"id":1366,"date":"2021-03-05T10:58:24","date_gmt":"2021-03-05T17:58:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wyoming4h.org\/virtual-career-night\/?page_id=1366"},"modified":"2026-02-13T14:35:57","modified_gmt":"2026-02-13T21:35:57","slug":"bridget-burns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wyoming4h.org\/virtual-career-night\/bridget-burns\/","title":{"rendered":"Bridget Burns"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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Bridget Burns
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Lead Animal Keeper (Riparian Dept)
Grizzly & Wolf Discovery Center<\/div>
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Did you miss this 2021 session?<\/strong>
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Q. What is the highlight of your career?<\/strong>
A. Any time there is successful breeding at a facility that involves animals in a species survival plan is a highlight. I have been lucky enough to be a part of marmoset, red panda, and gray wolf breeding programs. <\/p>

Q. What are challenges you encounter in your career?<\/strong>
A. Unfortunately, when working with live animals, you also must deal with death. One of the biggest challenges is having to go through end-of-life care with animals you have worked with for years. <\/p>

Q. How did you get to this career?<\/strong>
A. I went to Unity College, ME and worked for 4 years to earn my BS degree in Captive Wildlife Care and Education. This college was very immersive and hands of for getting into the Zoo field. I did two internships, a 4 month internship at a wild bird rehab facility and 6 months at a zoo in Oregon. After that I spent a few months applying to different zoos close to home, and finally landed my first fulltime Zoo job.<\/p>

Q.\u00a0Are there scholarship or internship opportunities available with your career? If so, where can more information about those be found?<\/strong>
A. There are many internship opportunities available with this career. They are incredibly competitive, but there are often many offered each year. The Association of Zoos and Aquariums (AZA) has a running list of jobs and internships that are available.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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Back to Past Career Track Speakers?<\/strong>
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Wild & Crazy Track Bridget Burns Lead Animal Keeper (Riparian Dept)Grizzly & Wolf Discovery Center\u00a0Phone: (973) 647-7375Email: bridgetb@grizzlydiscoveryctr.comWebsite: https:\/\/www.grizzlydiscoveryctr.com Did you miss this 2021 session?\u00a0 Watch the Recorded Video Q. What is the highlight of your career?A. Any time there is successful breeding at a facility that involves animals in a species survival plan is […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1376,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1366","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-5"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wyoming4h.org\/virtual-career-night\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1366","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wyoming4h.org\/virtual-career-night\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wyoming4h.org\/virtual-career-night\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wyoming4h.org\/virtual-career-night\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wyoming4h.org\/virtual-career-night\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1366"}],"version-history":[{"count":22,"href":"https:\/\/wyoming4h.org\/virtual-career-night\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1366\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3278,"href":"https:\/\/wyoming4h.org\/virtual-career-night\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1366\/revisions\/3278"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wyoming4h.org\/virtual-career-night\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1376"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wyoming4h.org\/virtual-career-night\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1366"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wyoming4h.org\/virtual-career-night\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1366"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wyoming4h.org\/virtual-career-night\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1366"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}