| Profession |
Skills Required |
Duties Performed |
| Animal Behaviorist |
- Equipment Maintenance: Performing routine maintenance on equipment and determining when and what kind of maintenance is needed.
- Time Management: Managing one's own time and the time of others.
- Speaking: Talking to others to convey information effectively.
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- Inform and respond to public regarding wildlife and conservation issues, such as plant identification, hunting ordinances, and nuisance wildlife.
- Organize and conduct experimental studies with live animals in controlled or natural surroundings.
- Coordinate preventive programs to control the outbreak of wildlife diseases.
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| Animal Scientist |
- Installation: Installing equipment, machines, wiring, or programs to meet specifications.
- Systems Evaluation: Identifying measures or indicators of system performance and the actions needed to improve or correct performance, relative to the goals of the system.
- Critical Thinking: Using logic and reasoning to identify the strengths and weaknesses of alternative solutions, conclusions or approaches to problems.
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- Develop improved practices in feeding, housing, sanitation, or parasite and disease control of animals.
- Determine genetic composition of animal populations and heritability of traits, utilizing principles of genetics.
- Advise producers about improved products and techniques that could enhance their animal production efforts.
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| Veterinary Assistant |
- Coordination: Adjusting actions in relation to others' actions.
- Learning Strategies: Selecting and using training/instructional methods and procedures appropriate for the situation when learning or teaching new things.
- Speaking: Talking to others to convey information effectively.
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- Dust, spray, or bathe animals to control insect pests.
- Perform hygiene-related duties such as clipping animals' claws, and cleaning and polishing teeth.
- Collect laboratory specimens such as blood, urine, and feces for testing.
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