| Profession |
Skills Required |
Duties Performed |
| Animal Scientist |
- Technology Design: Generating or adapting equipment and technology to serve user needs.
- Negotiation: Bringing others together and trying to reconcile differences.
- Quality Control Analysis: Conducting tests and inspections of products, services, or processes to evaluate quality or performance.
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- Research and control animal selection and breeding practices to increase production efficiency and improve animal quality.
- Communicate research findings to the scientific community, producers, and the public.
- Determine genetic composition of animal populations and heritability of traits, utilizing principles of genetics.
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| Animal Behaviorist |
- Mathematics: Using mathematics to solve problems.
- Monitoring: Monitoring/Assessing performance of yourself, other individuals, or organizations to make improvements or take corrective action.
- Social Perceptiveness: Being aware of others' reactions and understanding why they react as they do.
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- Oversee the care and distribution of zoo animals, working with curators and zoo directors to determine the best way to contain animals, maintain their habitats and manage facilities.
- Prepare collections of preserved specimens or microscopic slides for species identification and study of development or disease.
- Check for, and ensure compliance with, environmental laws and notify law enforcement when violations are identified.
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| Veterinarian |
- Systems Analysis: Determining how a system should work and how changes in conditions, operations, and the environment will affect outcomes.
- Social Perceptiveness: Being aware of others' reactions and understanding why they react as they do.
- Operations Analysis: Analyzing needs and product requirements to create a design.
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- Inspect and test horses, sheep, poultry, and other animals to detect the presence of communicable diseases.
- Inoculate animals against various diseases such as rabies and distemper.
- Collect body tissue, feces, blood, urine, or other body fluids for examination and analysis.
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