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13 Extreme Falconry: Free Flight with Harris's Hawks Part 2
Animal Training Fundamentals with Barbara Heidenreich - March 18, 2020 16:12 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 29 ratingsJoin me for Part 2 of my fascinating interview with animal training pioneer Al Kordowski. Although the basis of our conversation is falconry with Harris’s hawks, Al’s background brings us to some of the early days of marine mammal training. He shares his experiences from working with a wide vari...
12 Extreme Free Flight: Falconry with Harris's Hawks
Animal Training Fundamentals with Barbara Heidenreich - February 21, 2020 05:34 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 29 ratingsMy 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 hang and partner with you for eight hours out in the field. Al shares how these relationships are ...
11-Every Animal Counts! Training Education and Children’s Zoo Animals
Animal Training Fundamentals with Barbara Heidenreich - January 18, 2020 21:24 - 47 minutes ★★★★★ - 29 ratingsEducation 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 handler and not the animal. Progressive training flips the script. Animals have the choice to partic...
10 Let's Talk about Sex...and Animal Training
Animal Training Fundamentals with Barbara Heidenreich - January 11, 2020 03:39 - 31 minutes ★★★★★ - 29 ratingsWhat 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. They can also present undesired behaviors such as territorial aggression. Some will direct sexual ...
09 New Year's Resolutions for Animal Trainers 2020
Animal Training Fundamentals with Barbara Heidenreich - January 01, 2020 11:00 - 17 minutes ★★★★★ - 29 ratingsHappy 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 some great ideas to inspire you and launch your 2020 animal training adventures. Visit the epis...
08 How Do You Know if Behavior is Fluent?
Animal Training Fundamentals with Barbara Heidenreich - December 20, 2019 11:00 - 18 minutes ★★★★★ - 29 ratingsFluency 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 the right thing without hesitation. However doing the right thing in real life application can inv...
07 Repetitive Behavior- Stop the Madness!
Animal Training Fundamentals with Barbara Heidenreich - December 08, 2019 01:31 - 18 minutes ★★★★★ - 29 ratingsNot 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 that can reveal triggers and consequences that maintain the undesired behavior. This can then hel...
06-The Benefits of Horse Agility
Animal Training Fundamentals with Barbara Heidenreich - October 05, 2019 08:40 - 23 minutes ★★★★★ - 29 ratingsSpecial 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 positive reinforcement has made a tremendous difference in animal welfare. Learn about the easy to make...
05 - Target Training: A Complex “Basic” Behavior
Animal Training Fundamentals with Barbara Heidenreich - September 03, 2019 16:30 - 38 minutes ★★★★★ - 29 ratingsPeople 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 podcast will help you fine tune your target training skills. Get ideas on how to get targeting st...
01 - Creative Uses of Non Food Reinforcers
Animal Training Fundamentals with Barbara Heidenreich - July 13, 2019 21:40 - 31 minutes ★★★★★ - 29 ratingsFood can be a great reinforcer for training exotic animals. But anything your animal seeks to acquire or engage in, and can be delivered contingently, has the potential to reinforce behavior. Host Barbara Heidenreich has seven examples of different creative non-food reinforcers. And shares lots...
03 - Open Mouth Behavior – Success Strategies!
Animal Training Fundamentals with Barbara Heidenreich - July 13, 2019 21:33 - 23 minutes ★★★★★ - 29 ratingsOpen mouth can sometimes be tough to train! Often the most difficult challenge is getting the action started. Barbara goes over her favorite ways to start this behavior with wide variety of species. She also covers the methods she finds less successful and why. Also covered is the pesky problem...
04 - Tiger Training Gone Viral
Animal Training Fundamentals with Barbara Heidenreich - July 13, 2019 21:29 - 25 minutes ★★★★★ - 29 ratingsWhere did all those cool ideas for training tigers to cooperate in medical care come from? I know a lot of my inspiration came from some fantastic training I saw years ago at Copenhagen Zoo. Since then, their training has gone viral with video clips of urination on cue, using sleeves for injecti...
02 - The Unthinkable: Guest in the Enclosure
Animal Training Fundamentals with Barbara Heidenreich - July 13, 2019 21:23 - 23 minutes ★★★★★ - 29 ratingsIn this episode special guest Annette Pedersen shares a story zoo professionals hope never to experience. What would you do if a guest climbed into an enclosure with a dangerous animal? If your team has not prepared for this type of emergency, two lives are at stake, human and animal. Listen to...
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