12 Extreme Free Flight: Falconry with Harris's Hawks
My special guest this episode is master falconer Al Kordowski. Imagine spending your entire day doing what you love....flying birds! Not many trainers are accustomed to having free-flighted birds ha...
21 Helmi 20201h 1min
11-Every Animal Counts! Training Education and Children's Zoo Animals
Education animals, animal ambassadors, domestic animals and lab animals are often the ones who get the short end of the stick so to speak, meaning traditionally, participation was often up to the hand...
18 Tammi 202047min
10 Let's Talk about Sex...and Animal Training
What does sex have to do with animal training? Sometimes, everything! Animals with reproductive hormones in overdrive can present challenges with motivation for participation in training sessions. The...
11 Tammi 202031min
09 New Year's Resolutions for Animal Trainers 2020
Happy New Year! It's time for resolutions relevant to animal trainers. Barbara has made these for several years running now. This is the first time she is sharing them in a podcast! Barbara gives you...
1 Tammi 202017min
08 How Do You Know if Behavior is Fluent?
Fluency may seem intuitive ….on the surface. In behavior terms it is currently defined as the fluid combination of accuracy and speed that characterizes competent performance, in other words doing th...
20 Joulu 201918min
07 Repetitive Behavior- Stop the Madness!
Not all repetitive behavior is stereotypic. Many times it is the result of reinforcement. Determining why an animal is presenting repetitive behavior requires asking our selves a series of questions t...
8 Joulu 201918min
06-The Benefits of Horse Agility
Special guest Animal Training Coordinator of the Copenhagen Zoo, Annette Pedersen shares how transitioning from riding horses using traditional training techniques to training for agility with positiv...
5 Loka 201923min
05 - Target Training: A Complex "Basic" Behavior
People often think of target training as a basic behavior. But a deeper dive often helps us see this basic behavior has many details to consider that take it from basic to complex very quickly. This p...
3 Syys 201938min
