zookeepinghttp://www.oed.com/dictionary/zookeeping_n%3Ftab%3Dmeaning_and_usezookeeping, n.
First published 2017

zookeepingnoun

  1. 1929–
    The management of a zoo; the work of a zookeeper.
    1. 1929
      The speaker..excoriated the keepers and directors of the animal exhibit as mere..ex-saloon keepers whose knowledge of Zoo-keeping stopped with their mastery of the art of drawing salaries.
      Catholic World January 438/1
    2. 1993
      Bostock's book is an unusual combination of zookeeping and philosophy which seeks to address what he terms the ‘special challenge to zoos’: the right to freedom for animals.
      New Scientist 16 October 44/1
    3. 2001
      Getting animals used to the presence of humans is at the heart of the art and science of zookeeping.
      Y. Martel, Life of Pi (2002) ix. 39

Originally published as part of the entry for zoo, n.

zookeeping, n. was first published in 2017.