He took care of wild animals at the Prospect Park Zoo — but he acted like a pig to his female co-workers, a new lawsuit charges.
Brooklyn zookeeper Atu Marshall secretly shot cellphone footage of the women from under a picnic bench, “holding his camera so that the lens is facing outwards towards the legs of the female employees,” according to Manhattan federal court papers.
The plaintiffs — fellow wild animal zookeepers Tierney O’Neal and Justine Wilber — are suing the zoo, claiming that when they reported Marshall’s creepy behavior, their managers failed to discipline or even reprimand him.
Instead, at one point, Wilber was retaliated against, the suit says.
She was slapped with two written warnings for bogus infractions — then forced to continue “to feed the sea lions’’ alongside Marshall as punishment for her whistleblowing, the suit says.
It was Wilber who first noticed Marshall trying to sneak videos of her when she was alone with him in the summer of 2015, according to the papers.
A year later, Wilber caught Marshall sneakily recording her and other women sitting at the picnic table — and she whipped out her own phone to record him herself, the suit says.
Wilber brought the footage to the attention of zoo managers who, despite their assurances to Wilber that Marshall would be properly dealt with, only gave him a verbal warning, according to the court papers.
O’Neal complains in the suit that she has been forced to continue to work with the alleged ogler, too.
The plaintiffs are suing for unspecified damages.
A rep for the Wildlife Conservation Society called the lawsuit “utterly meritless.”