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Working With Animals

  • Animal Keeper - Meet Juan Rodriguez, Animal Keeper of the Asia Trail at the National Zoo. He talks about his daily duties and sloth bears.
  • Aquarium Careers - Monterey Bay Aquarium - Find a marine-related career that suits your talents and interests.
  • Bird Specialist - Ornithologist - Meet wildlife biologist Sarah Stock, who is an ornithologist (a person who studies birds) specializing in owls.
  • Dog Doctors - Choosing A Veterinary Career - What do you need to do to get into vet school? What are the duties of a veterinarian? Find out the answers here.
  • Insect Conservation - Entomological Conservation Biologist - Learn about Terry Erwin's work with insects.
  • Marine Biologist - Meet Carole Baldwin. She's an authority on marine biology who specializes in tropical-marine and deep-sea fishes.
  • Marine Careers - Get introduced to a wide range of marine career fields and to people working in those fields.
  • Marine Science Careers - Find out what a Research Biologist, Marine Mammalogist, Ichthyology, Biological Oceanographers and more do on a daily basis.
  • Working at the San Diego Zoo - There are so many jobs you can do at the zoo. Learn about working with animals, plants, science, conservation, and much, much more.
  • Veterinarian - Veterinarians perform surgery and give medicine when they take care of sick and injured animals; learn more about a career as a veterinarian.
  • Veterinarians at Work - Over 3000 veterinarians work for the federal government. Federal veterinarians also have important jobs with the NASA, the Food and Drug Administration and the Center for Veterinary Medicine.
  • Zoo Veterinarian - Meet Carlos. He is involved in the daily clinical care of animals in the Zoo’s collection at the National Zoo in Washington DC.

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