Anna Walraven

What decorated the staff kitchen when you started?

That's just brilliant, Anna.

Well done.

How did he react?

I don't know whether he took his beloved posters home.

I mean, were you surprised, Anna, about that kind of explicit sexism at work?

I mean, did it feel different from what you were used to in the Netherlands?

There were lots of challenges from the animals, not just the human animals, at Taronga Zoo.

Tell me, for example, how you move a rhino.

Was there any risk that the rhino would catch up?

What technique did you use to stop wombats from biting your ankles, which was not something I knew wombats did?

Well, adding to that delicious potpourri of aromas that you were marinating in all day, I guess you're always careful, being very careful of trying to not let any animal escape.

Are there some animals, were there some when you were at Taronga that were better at escaping than others?

Perfect for a panda.

You know, wombats and pandas are one kind of thing.

But, of course, there are real dangers that zookeepers face in the work that you do.

And a terrible thing happened while you were at the zoo in 1998 when a colleague lost their life.

Tell me about that day.

On the other end of the spectrum from tigers are baby animals.

And you would often take work home, quite literally.