Cover photo: Simon Jonsson One of the most beautiful moments of an animal trainer’s life is to see the animals they work with giving birth to a new member of the family. I was lucky enough to see a couple amazing births happening right in front of my eyes. Some Read more…
Many of us know what a recall is or understand the idea of what it is supposed to be. Looking on the internet it basically comes down to a signal that makes the animals return to the trainer in any situation. This takes some training but let’s get back to Read more…
At Zoospensefull we talk very much about the variation we can give to the animals. Variation is not as hard as we think it is. If we just look at their food intake for example and start to think from there. We can use various types of food and we Read more…
Back in May this year I was with a friend of mine in Israel. That time when loads of things happened to that country in a short time. I’ve never been there before and was a bit biased with everything I heard about this country. I’m ashamed that I could Read more…
Positive reinforcement is not just applying an object or food source what helps increase the behaviour you want. It actually goes a lot further than this. Working in a zoo setting gives a whole different perspective to reinforcement for the animals. A go to at first is 9 out of Read more…
Cover Photo: Female chimp, Medina, is photographed at the Ngamba Island Chimpanzee Sanctuary in Lake Victoria, Uganda. She is fond of clapping and swinging her hands when asking for food or anything of her interest and also complains when given less food. Whenever she sees anything from a point where she cannot Read more…
From the start of my career I have been exposed to shows with marine mammals with a lot of excitement. It has been a big part in my life to train animals for “show” behaviors. Lots of fun I have to say and learned so much on the way. From Read more…
Over time we all develop our own training style. Seeing other trainers is enriching for me just because you can learn so much about how and why people train their animals a particular way. Nobody is perfect and especially in the training world, many topics progress and chance all the Read more…
A couple months ago I went to Israel with one of my friends. We had to do a workshop for Jerusalem Zoo where they invited many other keepers from other parks. The outcome was great 36 people in total from about 7 different parks. As preparation for this symposium we Read more…
Within my career I’ve developed a different way looking at behaviors animals have. Some behaviors desirable some behaviors undesirable. Regardless of what behaviour it is and in what box we should put it I started to see how these behaviors could be solved or how they could be build up Read more…
