🤖 BARBIE MODE ACTIVATED 💗    Your adblocker was detected!    Comic Sans has been applied as cosmic punishment 💅    Ads keep this database FREE — please whitelist replacedbyrobot.info!    ✨ Everything is pink and that's entirely your fault ✨    🌸                     🤖 BARBIE MODE ACTIVATED 💗    Your adblocker was detected!    Comic Sans has been applied as cosmic punishment 💅    Ads keep this database FREE — please whitelist replacedbyrobot.info!    ✨ Everything is pink and that's entirely your fault ✨    🌸                     
Automation Risk Analysis

Will “Wildlife Specialist” be Automated?

Historical Context: Oxford Study (2013)

Ranked #240 of 702. Estimated risk: 30.0%

Directly assessed by researchers as unlikely to be automatable
Advertisement

A robot took your ad!

Ads keep this free database of 57,000+ jobs alive. Please whitelist replacedbyrobot.info — we promise our ads are tasteful!

AI Exposure Risk

51%

“Wildlife Specialist” will maybe be replaced by AI.

Based on the cognitive demands, communication requirements, and logical reasoning intrinsic to this occupation according to O*NET data, we project a 51% probability of disruption by generative AI and Large Language Models.

Automation & Robot Risk

41%

“Wildlife Specialist” will probably not be replaced by robots.

Evaluating the physical dexterity, repetitive motion tasks, and manual labor associated with this role, our analysis indicates a 41% likelihood of substitution by advanced robotics systems.

Personal & Financial Insights

Every occupation has a unique profile. For Zoologists and Wildlife Biologists, the Bureau of Labor Statistics and O*NET classify the day-to-day work broadly as: Study the origins, behavior, diseases, genetics, and life processes of animals and wildlife. May specialize in wildlife research and management. May collect and analyze biological data to determine the environmental effects of present and potential use of land and water habitats.

Avg. Annual Salary $77,920
Avg. Hourly Wage $37.46
Available Jobs (US) 16,920
Job Title & Hierarchy Code (SOC) Zoologists and Wildlife Biologists #19-1023
Wage vs. National Median
ℹ️

Data is based on the reference occupation: “Zoologists and Wildlife Biologists”

Advertisement

A robot took your ad!

Ads keep this free database of 57,000+ jobs alive. Please whitelist replacedbyrobot.info — we promise our ads are tasteful!

Related Occupations & Automation Risk

Economists

AI Risk 63%
Robot Risk 15%

Biochemists and Biophysicists

AI Risk 62%
Robot Risk 47%

Industrial Ecologists

AI Risk 61%
Robot Risk 23%

Geographers

AI Risk 61%
Robot Risk 28%

Environmental Economists

AI Risk 61%
Robot Risk 18%

Atmospheric and Space Scientists

AI Risk 61%
Robot Risk 28%

Core Skills & Abilities

  • Analyze characteristics of animals to identify and classify them.

  • Study characteristics of animals, such as origin, interrelationships, classification, life histories, diseases, development, genetics, and distribution.

  • Inventory or estimate plant and wildlife populations.

  • Collect and dissect animal specimens and examine specimens under microscope.

  • Perform administrative duties, such as fundraising, public relations, budgeting, and supervision of zoo staff.

  • Study animals in their natural habitats, assessing effects of environment and industry on animals, interpreting findings and recommending alternative operating conditions for industry.

  • Check for, and ensure compliance with, environmental laws, and notify law enforcement when violations are identified.

  • Coordinate preventive programs to control the outbreak of wildlife diseases.

  • Organize and conduct experimental studies with live animals in controlled or natural surroundings.

  • Conduct literature reviews.

  • Develop, or make recommendations on, management systems and plans 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.

  • Inform and respond to public regarding wildlife and conservation issues, such as plant identification, hunting ordinances, and nuisance wildlife.

  • Prepare collections of preserved specimens or microscopic slides for species identification and study of development or disease.

Technologies & Software

  • Nova (Amazon)
  • Microsoft Outlook
  • Statistical software
  • Gemini (Google)
  • Semantic Scholar AI
  • Grok (xAI)
  • Microsoft Excel
  • Web browser software
  • DeepSeek
  • Microsoft Project
  • Computer modeling software
  • R
  • Elicit
  • Spreadsheet software
  • Microsoft PowerPoint
  • Mistral (Mistral AI)
  • Geographic information system GIS software
  • NotebookLM (Google)
  • Llama (Meta)
  • Email software
  • ChatGPT (OpenAI)
  • Corel WordPerfect Office Suite
  • Kimi (Moonshot AI)
  • Consensus
  • SAS
  • Gemini for Workspace
  • Scite AI
  • Geographic information system GIS systems
  • Qwen (Alibaba)
  • Python
  • Word processing software
  • Salesforce software
  • Microsoft Active Server Pages ASP
  • Microsoft Access
  • Microsoft Office software
  • ESRI ArcView
  • Global positioning system GPS software
  • Database management software
  • Relational database software
  • Perplexity AI
  • Mistral AI (chat/models)
  • ESRI ArcGIS software
  • Microsoft Word
  • IBM Lotus 1-2-3
  • HATPRO
  • Claude (Anthropic)
  • Safety glasses
  • Air compressors
  • Laboratory mechanical convection incubators
  • Water thermometers
  • Portable refractometers
  • Laboratory balances
  • Archery bows
  • Egg candlers
  • Calorimeters
  • Laser printers
  • Odonata nets
  • Extension ladders
  • Petri dishes
  • Light traps
  • Jet skis
  • Snorkels
  • Climbing belts
  • Drying ovens
  • Metric measuring tapes
  • Benchtop centrifuges
  • Aerial nets
  • Personal computers
  • Adjustable widemouth pliers
  • Small power boats
  • Laboratory freezers
  • Steam autoclaves
  • Dart guns
  • Canoes
  • Benthic samplers
  • Animal transmitters
  • Dataloggers
  • Digital cameras
  • Four wheel drive 4WD vehicles
  • pH meters
  • Tree corers
  • Mist nets
  • Volumeters
  • Laboratory beakers
  • Secchi disks
  • D-ring nets
  • Culvert traps
  • Counting chambers
  • Hard hats
  • Sieve buckets
  • Field thermometers
  • Bongo nets
  • Binoculars
  • Clinometers
  • Ekman dredges
  • Jellyfish scoops
  • Compasses
  • Dust masks
  • Spotting scopes
  • Dissolved oxygen meters
  • Sledgehammers
  • Seines
  • Dissecting tools
  • Carbon dioxide CO2 monitors
  • Mesh sieves
  • Dissecting microscopes
  • Stainless steel scalpel blades
  • Animal traps
  • Spectrometers
  • Plankton nets
  • Fish traps
  • Graduated glass laboratory cylinders
  • Radio telemetry equipment
  • Desktop computers
  • Dropping pipettes
  • Monopan balances
  • All terrain vehicles ATV
  • Boat trailers
  • Compound binocular light microscopes
  • Laboratory forceps
  • Water pumps
  • Two way radios
  • Notebook computers
  • Scintillation vials
  • Micrometers
  • Fume hoods
  • Foot snares
  • Sterilizing ovens
  • Dip net samplers
  • Hand lenses
  • Flow meters
  • Gill nets
  • Spring scales
  • Rubber rafts
  • Snowmobiles
  • Laser hypsometers
  • Folsom plankton splitters
  • Leather gloves
  • Geodetic ground global positioning system GPS receivers
  • Nitrile gloves
  • Rulers
  • Water samplers
  • Sweeping nets
  • Multiplate samplers
  • 35 millimeter cameras
  • Vernier calipers
  • Compound microscopes
  • Photomicroscopes
  • Specimen collection containers
  • Water sample collection containers
  • Axes
  • Laboratory funnels
  • Conductivity meters
  • Self-contained underwater breathing apparatus SCUBA equipment
  • Tree top peeper and video probe systems
  • Salinity meters

Alternative Job Titles