In a Desperate Attempt to Appear Cool, Zookeepers are Mimicking Chris Pratt

Jurassic World is a big, big, big hit. While the effects of its opening weekend on the movie industry may be, um, bad, it has spawned at least one thing that's fun to think about on the internet:  #JurassicZoo, under which zookeepers are posting photos of themselves trying to "wrangle" their charges in a similar fashion to Chris Pratt's character in the movie.

Some of them include larger animals.

OMG there are tons of zoo keepers doing this. That's amazing. If you've done one tweet me? I love this. #JurassicZoopic.twitter.com/s4ez00WIQP

-- michelle buchman (@michelledeidre) June 17, 2015

Others are... smaller.

#prattkeeping#jurassiczoo. #closeenoughpic.twitter.com/rmGKxkXauu

-- Lloyd Johnson (@LloydDJohnson) June 18, 2015

Okay: #JurassicZoo is a lot of fun, especially for the smaller animals. But other than the whole "keeping animals caged" thing, zookeeping is pretty awesome by itself! If this gets people to pay attention to those who get to hang out with animals all day great, but otherwise? Keep doing you, zookeepers. You don't need Chris Pratt to make you feel special.


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