Monitors animals during their critical recovery phase on the days following surgery, including performing TPRs (temp, pulse, and respiration), auscultation of the heart and lungs, assessing pain of animals at incision sites, changing wound dressings and administering medications. Performs and documents a variety of activities, including but not limited to, routine clinical observations, charting of physiological data and animal health status, taking study-required animal weights, documentation of maintenance medicine administration, etc.