Josh Ruffell

Moorpark, CA United States

Assistant Curator

Agriculture / Forests / Fisheries

Wildlife expert Josh Ruffell got his start at age 16 as an animal keeper at Furry Friends Zoo in Lyndeborough, New Hampshire, and later attended Salem State College (SSC) in Salem, Massachusetts. After general studies and biology course work at SSC, he matriculated at Moorpark College in Moorpark, California, where he completed the Exotic Animal Training and Management Program with a focus on wildlife education and exotic animal training. Josh Ruffell’s responsibilities at Moorpark included training and caring for a number of wild animals including a black leopard, an olive baboon, an American kestrel, a dromedary camel, a double yellow-headed amazon parrot, and two spotted hyenas.