zoo registrar

Zoo registrars are responsible for the maintenance of a wide variety of records relating to animals and their care in zoological collections. This includes both historic and current records. They have the responsibiltity to collate records into an organised and recognised records keeping system. In most cases this also involves submitting regular reports to regional or international species information systems and/or as part of managed breeding programmes i.e.

The most in-demand skills for this role include animal welfare legislation, unstructured data, data quality assessment, speak different languages, use ICT systems, use different communication channels. These are the skills O*NET identifies as most important for competent performance.

Our AI-durability model gives zoo registrar a score of 0.50 on a 0-1 scale (higher = more exposure). That places it at moderate AI exposure — some tasks are being automated but the role adapts. Learning to work with AI tools rather than against them is the path forward.