About Me

My name is Sebastian Grant, I keep and have worked with a huge diversity of species, and yes I know how lucky I am! Here in my short video's and writings I will try to convey how I've kept some of the animals I have kept mainly at home but also at work over the years. I will try and be honest about what I've done. On how I’ve kept things both at home at professionally and what’s gone wrong. It has long been a belief of mine that many captive animals survive in spite of what we do, rather than because of it. Here's how and why I've messed up or succeeded. The videos are mainly from my YouTube channel, SebastiansAnimals (catchy huh?). I would like to state that the opinions expressed in this blog are my own and not in any way meant to be taken as the views of anyone else I may mention in these ramblings. Sebastian. March 2012. Main photo by Jane Hallam.

Saturday 27 April 2013

Mr Grant, in person.

Here are a few work videos of me taken over the years at my job at ZSL London Zoo.
Here you can see some of the fantastic animals I've worked with, and the super cool hair cuts I've had during this time.

The first clip is of the giant anteaters Myrmecophaga tridactyla. Here with my short "silver fox" hair,
 (grey..) 
I chat about something that doesn't really need any words.
 
 The next clip is of the two rheas we had, Lefty and Bert. The same hair, the same day. 


Naked mole rats Heterocephalus glaber are possibly one of the most complex species you can get. The more you know about them the less you feel you understand. This is the colony I worked with at the BUGS! exhibit at the zoo.


The Galapagos tortoises are one my favorite animals, and I think my enthusiasm, and hair stand out.

    

This is the annual stocktake we make of all the animals at the zoo each year, I'm only in a few seconds of the film (not worth watching you cry? Well check out 34, and 115 seconds in) but theres lots of other fantastic animals and amazing people to see.
(But dull hair cuts...)

And lastly, for now, here's the two newest additions to our tortoise group, Polly and Priscilla,
as for the hair? Well, I'm now wearing a hat a lot....