Grose
Brought
into the world in 1990 to a UK mother and a Maltese
father, Alice grew up for most
of her life in Surrey's Woking. Her love of comedy growing up saw 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 ambition was fulfilled when she started volunteering at a
Wildlife Rehabilitation Centre in 2011, while attending University.
From then on, Alice was hooked on animal care and strived to pursue that career instead.
Alice began her career in Zookeeping in 2014 at ZSL London Zoo where
she worked on 3 different animal departments. In 2015, she departed
from the Zoo life to run a Children's Farm in North London but
after a few years, decide to return to exotic animals, moving to Costa Rica for 7 months to study Toucans and assist in Sloth research.
When she returned to England, she
made her way back to Zookeeping, and became 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), zookeeper a not-for-profit organisation that allows Zookeepers from across the UK and
beyond to learn 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 explores animal behaviour in a humorous fashion, with the help of experts across the world.
In the first few months of her podcast, she was joined by nature creatives such as Chris Packham, Megan McCubbin, Lucy Lapwing, zookeeper Jungle Jordan, Bertie Gregory and aims
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.
