Courses

When discussing cooperative care, we are referring to any behaviour that involves animals participating in their own care, whether it’s moving from one area to another, approaching the trainer when asked, or more challenging tasks like blood samples or body measurements. In essence, this concept is also known as husbandry Read more…

A shaping plan is the very first success to the behaviour you want to train. A shaping plan is very important and often forgotten by many. We end up in a downwards spiral and the animal starts do preform behaviours we are not looking for because we are not sure Read more…

Anticipatory behaviour and stereotype behaviour is something we see in our collections. We see them at farms, horse stables and in our households. Why are they there and what can we do about them? Both of them need 2 different strategies in practise. One is a lot more difficult in Read more…

Do you want to teach an emergency recall with the animals in your care than this is the course for you! We are excited to announce that we added extra lessons in the course which teaches you problem solving during conditioning and after the behaviour is established. When the emergency Read more…

A shaping plan is the very first success to the behaviour you want to train. A shaping plan is very important and often forgotten by many. We end up in a downwards spiral and the animal starts do preform behaviours we are not looking for because we are not sure Read more…

Session Date 1 10-2-2022 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

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Building a training program in a Zoo is not about how to train the animals but more about inspiring the keepers to train their animals the best way possible. Understanding their line of work and how we can implement time to train is a skill not many of us have. Read more…

Can We Get Some Time Back?“The idea of having all the time in the world through focussing on behaviour” As animal caretakers time always has been our enemy. All the errands we have to do around the animals to give them the best care possible such as cleaning, applying enrichment, Read more…

Sessions Date 1 8-9-2021 2 3

Sessie Datum Sessie 1 Check Sessie 2 Check Sessie 3 Sessie 4

Session Date Session 1 18-8-2021 Session 2 15-9-2021 Session 3 Session 4 Session 5 Session 6 Session 7 Session 8 Session 9 Session 10

Session Date 1 27-5-2021 2 15-9-2021 3 27-10-2021 4 Check 5

This webinar is all about how to train a brand new behaviour. We are going through the shaping techniques such as: Modelling Targeting Mimicry Capturing To give you another look at why you want to use which strategy and how you can use these strategies I your profit while training Read more…