Animal Training Academy

Hilda Tresz – Behavioural Enrichment and International Animal Welfare coordinator at Phoenix Zoo/Mentor for the Jane Goodall institute.

HILDA TRESZ – Phoenix Zoo Hilda was born and raised in Budapest until 1989 when she moved to the United States. She began working as a Zoo keeper immediately after graduating from high school and over...

24 Jan 201751min

Manager of Animal Training at Maymont – Anaka Nazareth.

NOTE: This podcast was recorded in December of 2016. Consequently when myself and Anaka say "next year" we are referring to 2017. CLICK HERE for the podcast outline CLICK HERE to be taken to the ABMA ...

4 Jan 201743min

Ryan Tate – Lessons learned from a career of behavior management

Podcast outline. 00:00 Introductions 02:45 Ryan Tells us about where her first started learning about and using positive reinforcement animal training. 08:27 Ryan shares a great story about what he le...

17 Dec 201645min

Talking enrichment with Sarah Van Herpt from Wellington Zoo [Part 2]

Podcast outline. 00:00 Introductions 3:58 Sarah shares her experience from attending the Shape of enrichment workshops held at Wellington Zoo in 2014 and about the process of enrichment she learned ab...

5 Dec 201629min

Punishment starts where knowledge ends – with [ Louise Ginman ]

Podcast outline 0:00 Introduction 2:54 Louise talks about where she first learned about positive reinforcement animal training and some of the first animals she ever trained using it. 6:13 Louise & I ...

28 Nov 201641min

Talking enrichment with Sarah Van Herpt from Wellington Zoo [Part 1]

In this podcast episode we talk to Sarah Van Herpt from Wellington Zoo. This is part one of what will be a two-part episode where we cover a large range of information regarding Sarah's experience in ...

28 Okt 201629min

Shaping behavior [with Mikolaj Zybala]

In this episode we catch up with past podcast participant Mikolaj Zybala (Miko) from Poland and discuss shaping behavior. (CLICK HERE to listen to the previous episode featuring Miko). Also see below ...

13 Okt 201636min

Nic Bishop – Nature theater storyteller [Part 2]

This is part two of 2-part series with Nic Bishop, manager of Nature theater, Zoos SA [Adelaide, Australia]. CLICK HERE to listen to part one. Nic is a master story teller and shares many valuable tal...

3 Okt 201629min