Finding your own zoos, aquaria & marine mammals internship:   If you have an interest in animal nutrition, veterinary medicine, education, as well as general animal husbandry and care, you will find internship opportunities at many zoos and aquaria.

Internships Information: You will find additional information pertaining to internships and jobs under the "Resources and Strategies..."" link and the "Summer internship and jobs" link in the main index.

Additional Internship Opportunities:  Zoos, Aquaria and Marine Mammals

• Internships in Ecology, Animal & Plant Biology, and Marine Science

• Alaska Sea Life Center (Seward, AK)
• American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (New York, NY)
• Aquarium of the Pacific (Long Beach, CA)
• Aquarist Interns (Stone Harbor, NJ)
• Association of Zoos and Aquariums (AZA)
• Atlantis Marine World Aquarium (Riverhead, NY)
  
• Baltimore Zoo (Baltimore, MD)
• Beam Reach (Pacific Northwest)
  
• Binghamton Zoo at Ross Park (Binghamton, NY)
• Bronx Zoo Education Dept. (Bronx, NY)
• Charmingfare Farm (Candia, NH)
• ChimpanZoo (Tucsin, AZ)
• Cincinnati Zoo (Cincinnati, OH)
  
• Connecticut's Beardsley Zoo (Bridgeport, CT)
• Disney Professional Internships (various locations)
• Dolphin Communication Project (Bahamas)
  
• The Dolphin Institute - Whale & Dolphin Research (Honolulu, HI)
• Dolphin Research Center (Grassy Key, FL)
• Dolphins Plus (Key Largo, FL)
• ECHO Center for Lake Champlain (Burlington, VT)
• Elmwood Park Zoo (Norristown, PA)
• Franklin Park Zoo
• Friends of the National Zoo (Washington, DC)
• Global Learning Semesters (San Ignacio, Belize)
• Island Dolphin Care (Key Largo, FL)
• Lehigh Valley Zoo (Schnecksville, PA)
• Lincoln Park Zoo (Chicago, IL)
• Los Angeles Zoo (Los Angeles, CA)
• The Maritime Aquarium (Norwalk, CT)
• Minnesota Zoo (Apply Valley, MN)
  
• Mote Marine Laboratory (Sarasota, FL)
• Mystic Aquarium (Mystic, CT)
• National Aquarium in Baltimore (Baltimore, MD)
• National Zoological Park (Washington, DC & Front Royal, VA)
• New England Aquarium (Boston, MA)
• New England Wildlife Center (Hingham, MA)
• New Jersey State Aquarium (Camden, NJ)
• North Carolina Aquarium at Fort Fisher (Kure Beach, NC)
  
• Ocean Mammal Institute - Humpback Whale Field Research (Hawaii)
• Peace River Refuge & Ranch, Inc. (Zolfo Springs, FL)
• Perry Institute for Marine Science Caribbean Marine Research Center (Jupiter, FL)
• Philadelphia Zoo (Philadelphia, PA)
• Pittsburgh Zoo and PPG Aquarium (Pittsburgh, PA)
  
• Rosamond Gifford Zoo at Burnet Park (Syracuse, NY)
• San Francisco Zoological Society (San Francisco, CA)
• Sea Life Park (Hawaii)
  
• SeaWorld (Orlando, FL)
• Sedgwick County Zoo - Behavior and Research (Witchita, KS)
• Seneca Park Zoo (Rochester, NY)
  
• Smithsonian National Zoological Park - Conservation & Research Center (Front Royal, VA)
• Society for Ecological Coastal Research (Victoria, BC)
  
• The Society for Marine Mammalogy
• Southwick's Zoo (Mendon, MA)
• Stone Zoo (Stoneham, MA)
  
• Theater of the Sea (Islamorada, FL)
• University of New England's Marine Animal Rehabilitation Center (Biddeford, ME)
• Walt Disney World (CA & FL)
• Walt Disney World - Professional Internships (Orlando, FL)
• The Whale Center of New England (Gloucester, MA)
• Wild Things, Inc. (Weimar, CA)
• Wildlife Conservation Society - New York City, NY)
  
• Wildlife Conservation Society - Bronx Zoo (Bronz, NY)
• WWW Virtual Library of Zoos
• Zoo New England
• ZooGoer Internship (Washington, DC)

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