🤖 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 “Zoologist” 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%

“Zoologist” 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%

“Zoologist” 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

  • 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.

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

  • Analyze characteristics of animals to identify and classify them.

  • Conduct literature reviews.

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

  • Inventory or estimate plant and wildlife populations.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Technologies & Software

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

Alternative Job Titles