Study the origins, behavior, diseases, genetics, and life processes of animals and wildlife. May specialize in wildlife research and management, including the collection and analysis of biological data to determine the environmental effects of present and potential use of land and water areas.

Other names for Zoologists and Wildlife Biologists: Animal Behaviorist, Animal Biologist, Aquatic Biologist, Conservation Resources Management Biologist, Dolphin Researcher, Ecologist, Entomologist, Environmental Consultant, Environmental Specialist, Field Naturalist, Fish and Wildlife Biologist, Fish Conservationist, Fish Culturist, Fish Technologist, Fisheries Biologist, Fisheries Management Biologist, Fishery Biologist, Genetic Scientist, Herpetologist, Ichthyologist, Lepidopterist, Limnologist, Mammalogist, Marine Biologist, Marine Scientist, Migratory Game Bird Biologist, Naturalist, Nematologist, Ornithologist, Protozoologist, Wildlife Biologist, Wildlife Conservationist, Wildlife Manager, Wildlife Technician, Zoologist,

• Study animals in their natural habitats, assessing effects of environment and industry on animals, interpreting findings and recommending alternative operating conditions for industry.
• Inventory or estimate plant and wildlife populations.
• Analyze characteristics of animals to identify and classify them.
• Make recommendations on management systems and planning for wildlife populations and habitat, consulting with stakeholders and the public at large to explore options.
• Disseminate information by writing reports and scientific papers or journal articles, and by making presentations and giving talks for schools, clubs, interest groups and park interpretive programs.
• Study characteristics of animals such as origin, interrelationships, classification, life histories and diseases, development, genetics, and distribution.
• Perform administrative duties such as fundraising, public relations, budgeting, and supervision of zoo staff.
• Organize and conduct experimental studies with live animals in controlled or natural surroundings.
• 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.
• Coordinate preventive programs to control the outbreak of wildlife diseases.
• Prepare collections of preserved specimens or microscopic slides for species identification and study of development or disease.
• Raise specimens for study and observation or for use in experiments.
• Collect and dissect animal specimens and examine specimens under microscope.

• Still cameras
• Adjustable widemouth pliers
• Entomological catching equipment
• Air compressors
• All terrain vehicles tracked or wheeled
• Radio frequency transmitters or receivers
• Sporting traps
• Archery bows
• Axes
• Benchtop centrifuges
• Water samplers
• Binoculars
• Boat Trailer
• Commercial fishing nets
• Calorimeters
• Canoes or kayaks
• Single gas monitors
• Safety harnesses or belts
• Clinometers
• Compasses
• Binocular light compound microscopes
• Binocular light compound microscopes
• Conductivity meters
• Counters
• Sporting traps
• Commercial fishing nets
• Air rifles or air handguns
• Portable data input terminals
• Desktop computers
• Digital cameras
• Commercial fishing nets
• Stereo or dissecting light microscopes
• Dissection kits or supplies
• Dissolved oxygen meters
• Dropping pipettes
• Drying cabinets or ovens
• Masks or accessories
• Egg inspection or collecting equipment
• Water samplers
• Ladders
• Surface thermometers
• Sporting traps
• Flow sensors
• Sample changers
• Sporting traps
• All terrain vehicles tracked or wheeled
• Fume hoods or cupboards
• Global positioning system receivers
• Commercial fishing nets
• Laboratory graduated cylinders
• Magnifiers
• Hard hats
• Commercial fishing nets
• Personal motorized watercraft
• Laboratory balances
• Laboratory beakers
• Laboratory forceps
• Ultra cold or ultralow upright cabinets or freezers
• Laboratory funnels
• Forced air or mechanical convection general purpose incubators
• Rangefinders
• Laser printers
• Protective gloves
• Flying insect control traps
• Test sieves
• Tape measures
• Micrometers
• Sporting traps
• Laboratory balances
• Water samplers
• Protective gloves
• Notebook computers
• Entomological catching equipment
• Personal computers
• Petri plates or dishes
• pH meters
• Photo attachments for microscopes
• Commercial fishing nets
• Handheld refractometers or polarimeters
• Radio frequency transmitters or receivers
• Rafts
• Rulers
• Safety glasses
• Salinity meter
• Specimen collectors
• Water samplers
• Commercial fishing nets
• Diving instruments or accessories
• Test sieves
• Hammers
• Recreational motorboats
• Masks or fins or snorkels
• Snowmobiles or snow scooter
• Specimen collectors
• Spectrometers
• Telescopes
• Pull spring balances
• Surgical scalpels or knives or blades or trephines or accessories
• Steam autoclaves or sterilizers
• Dry heat or hot air sterilizers
• Entomological catching equipment
• Forestry increment borers
• Digital camcorders or video cameras
• Two way radios
• Calipers
• Volumeters
• Water pumps
• Specimen collectors
• Water samplers
• Handheld thermometer

Project management software

Office suite software

Word processing software

Presentation software

Spreadsheet software

Data base user interface and query software

Analytical or scientific software

Internet browser software

Electronic mail software

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