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name: zoo-registrar
description: "Occupational skill for the role 'zoo registrar' (also: aquarium record keeper, collections registrar, zoo registrar and records coordinator, animals registrar, aquarium registrar, records coordinator). Use when the user asks for typical zoo registrar work such as: typical zoo registrar responsibilities"
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# 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. zoo registrars are usually responsible for both internal and external management if institutional records . Zoo registrars also often coordinate animal transportation for the zoological collection.

## Core workflow


## How to use this skill

- Read [references/profile.md](references/profile.md) for the occupation profile and scope.
- Consult [references/tasks.md](references/tasks.md) for the full task and activity inventory.
- Check [references/skills.md](references/skills.md) for essential vs. optional competences.
- Check [references/tools.md](references/tools.md) for the software commonly used in this role.
- See [references/ai-skills.md](references/ai-skills.md) — matched external AI agent skills (per-source attribution).

## Key competences (essential)

- animal welfare legislation
- coordinate operational activities
- create animal records
- data quality assessment
- ensure cross-department cooperation
- keep task records
- maintain data entry requirements
- manage data collection systems
- process data
- produce reports based on animal records
- speak different languages
- unstructured data
- use different communication channels
- use ICT systems

## Hot technologies

- Adobe Acrobat
- Adobe Creative Cloud software
- Adobe Illustrator
- Adobe InDesign
- Adobe Photoshop
- Extensible markup language XML
- Hypertext markup language HTML
- Microsoft Access
- Microsoft Excel
- Microsoft Office software

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*Sources: ESCO v1.2.1 (http://data.europa.eu/esco/occupation/e7417f4f-7072-4b07-a71f-71f6fc7f5e5b), O*NET 30.3 (25-4011.00, manual nearest match). See manifest.json for licensing/attribution.*