19 - Manage the Environment to Get Behavior
Animal Training Fundamentals with Barbara Heidenreich
English - August 29, 2020 21:40 - 29 minutes - 47.5 MB - ★★★★★ - 29 ratingsNature Science Kids & Family Pets & Animals animalbehavior animaltraining barbaraheidenreich behaviorscience exoticanimals exoticanimaltraining wildlifeprofessionals wildlifetrainers zooanimals zooanimaltraining Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
In this episode I get into one of my favorite subjects. It's not so much about knowing scientific terminology, but it does require some specialized skill sets. I do think every trainer needs to be a little bit of an engineer, a physicist, an artist and most definitely an ethologist. All these skills combine to help trainers see ways in which we can manipulate the environment to make it more likely animals will easily give us behavior that we can reinforce. The environment can include objects with which we need the animal to engage. The environment can also include the space we are going to utilize to train the behavior. This may need to be modified to increase comfort and/or to facilitate creating desired actions. All of this requires a lot of creative thinking and attention to detail. Check out the podcast to learn more and get lots of real-life examples. Visit the episode webpage for photos, links, and video examples. - Barbara Heidenreich