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Born in 1990 to a UK mother and a Maltese father, Alice grew
up for the majority of her life in Wo... View MoreBorn in 1990 to a UK mother and a Maltese father, Alice grew
up for the majority of her life in Woking, Surrey.
Her love of comedy during her youth saw her to participate
in 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 ambition was
realised when she began volunteering at a Wildlife Rehabilitation Centre in 2011, while going to University.
From then on, Alice was hooked on animal
care and zookeeper worked to pursue that career
instead.
Alice started her
career in Zookeeping in 2014 at London Zoo ZSL 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, chose to go back to exotic animals,
relocating to Costa Rica for zookeeper 7 months to research Toucans and assist in Sloth research.
When she came back to England, she returned to Zookeeping,
and took on the role of a Carnivore Keeper at Shepreth Wildlife Park, where she remained for nearly
5 years.
During this time, she established the Keeper Educational
Exchange Programme (or KEEP), a non-profit organisation that enables Zookeepers from
across the UK and beyond to gain knowledge from each other
through spending time at other collections.
She has spoken about the programme at the ABWAK Symposium and the BIAZA Annual Conference
and the organisation
is honoured to be BIAZA Endorsed and supported
by Birdworld, in Surrey.
In 2023, seeking a creative outlet, Alice launched 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, Megan McCubbin, Lucy Lapwing, Jungle
Jordan, Bertie Gregory and hopes to continue interviewing hilarious experts
about animals with a bad reputation.
Alice was also nominated for BIAZA's
"Woman of the Year" award in 2023.
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