Zoo Keeper is an arcade video game created by Taito America and released in 1983.
The player controls Zeke, a zookeeper, attempting to rescue his girlfriend Zelda from a zoo where the animals have escaped from their cages.
In the platform stages, a life is lost when hit by a coconut or falling off the bottom of the screen.
[1] As programmer John Morgan worked on the game, he made substantial changes and it evolved away from the original concept.
[1] Zoo Keeper was not published for contemporary home systems, but programmer Christopher H. Omarzu partially implemented an Atari 2600 version which was cancelled in 1984.
[4] Zoo Keeper was re-released in the 2005 Taito Legends collection for PlayStation 2, Xbox, and Microsoft Windows.