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Hello everybody,
Here some information for you.
The recordings are available 6 months after the conference. Which means starting date 17th of December 2021 – 17th of June 2022.
To acces the conference you have to login with your username. Click on profile (don’t hover). Then you see the platform in your profile. When you click it you can see all the information.
Make sure you mark each page as complete for you to get your certificate. This means that you have to pass all the topic pages. 🙂
Please let me know if this works for you.
Peter
DAY 5
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Day 4:
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Eva:
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Meeting ID: 871 1041 6308
Passcode: 161003Grey:
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Meeting ID: 899 0711 6713
Passcode: 408816Monday 13th of December 2021
7:00PM – 7:15PM Opening by Peter Giljam
7:20PM – 8:20PM The welfare benefits of medical care training in the modern zoo – Jim Mackie
8:30PM – 9:15PM Horse movement, connection and balance – Angelica Hesselius
9:25PM – 10:10PM The Wolfdog, The Pig & The Parrot – Lisa Longo
10:10PM – 10:30PM Closing thoughts by Peter GiljamTuesday 14th of December 2021
7:00PM – 7:10PM Opening by Peter Giljam
7:10PM – 8:10PM Mark Simmons
8:20PM – 9:05PM Cats and cooperative care; The new frontier! – J.R. Henderson
9:15PM – 10:00PM The observable choices; Whats the Impact? – Peter Giljam
10:10PM – 10:55PM Cooperative Care, The missing link – THE HUMAN PACTOR – Kat Gregory
10:55PM – 11:15PM Closing thoughts by Peter GiljamWednesday 15th of December 2021
7:00PM – 7:15PM Opening by Peter Giljam
7:15PM – 8:15PM Fins, feather and fur: How to create husbandry at home, games with a twist – Laura M. Torelli
8:15PM – 9:30PM Various Discussion groups
1. How to teach the mouth open behaviour? The approach and solutions in different environments – Peter Giljam
2. Choice in the animals environment to increase a successful training session – Eva Bertilsson & Nicky Plaskitt
3. Routines, rituals and rhythm with our companion animals and what works best for the relationship to thrive – J.R Henderson & Anna Bartosik
4. The LRS – Grey Stafford & Ted Turner (This session is recorded for a podcast)
9:40PM – 11:00PM Pub Quiz – First 100 attendees can join!Thursday 16th of December 2021
7:00PM – 7:10PM Opening by Peter Giljam
7:10PM – 8:10PM Start buttons and cooperative care techniques you might not have heard about – Peggy Hogan
8:20PM – 9:05PM The intelligence of the ox; ask and you will see – Karen Ryder
9:15PM – 10:00PM Husbandry training with dogs utilising cooperation signals – Animal Training Center
10:10PM – 10:55PM Antecedent arrangement of cooperative care in the zoo – Michelle Skurski
10:55PM – 11:15PM Closing thoughts by Peter GiljamFriday 17th of December 2021
7:00PM – 7:15PM Opening by Peter Giljam
7:20PM – 8:20PM The top 10 behaviours of expert animal trainers – Steve Martin
8:30PM – 9:15PM The emotional horse during cooperative care – Suzy Deurinck
9:25PM – 10:10PM Health, lameness and rehabilitation; the cooperative care approach – Matthew Shackleton
10:10PM – 10:30PM Closing by Peter GiljamOk.
The thoughts that I have in mind.
Separation: This has to be equally trained. Taking one away doesnt mean the other individual accepts and vice versa. Slow process and small approximations in a controlled setting will help you. For example:
One trainer has goat 1 and the other goat 2. You get out of the exhibit and directly go back into the exhibit. When you go out the goat that stays is reinforced heavily for staying and accepting. The other goat is reinforced heavily for leaving. You go back right away. You can build this up in time. But importantly you always reinforce both animals for accepting the situation. A common trainers problem is pushing this to hard and therefore it get’s worse.The other challenge:
What you want to focus on is the behaviour you reinforce. They jump on you, ignore, ask a target and reinforce again. This will help to refocus. The food problem, is another one to crack. You need to teach them patience. When you wait you get more when you don’t there is nothing. Eye focus is what you need here. Catch them doing it right is something I say often. This means that they can do the right thing in a split second. You have to recognise quickly and reinforce accordingly.What will help is the following:
– dont train with a bucket.
– keep your hands out of your pocket if you dont intend to reinforce.
– have reinforcement at different places instead of your pockets so you can walk there to reinforce. Use different positioning which makes it variable for you and the goat and predictable patterns aren’t there.
– use the same food source as they get in their “free” time.Another thing it to think about what you want from the goats and do the goats understand this? Do you go too fast?
If you work in a team setting do all trainers understand the same criteria you ask? Do they respond the same way when situations become more challenging? Those are the first questions I try to answer to become more clear to the individuals.
From here I like to start to plan the program. Let me know if that helps?
Send me a video if you can so I can help in more detail.
Hi,
Thank you. Great points. It is not about how we do it in different ways. It is the question about what do you want from the animals. I dont think an end of session is negative for the animal. As long as the animal is reinforced for what we want from them.
With the horses, I always say stop putting food on the ground as end of session. The reason is you have to go from a little hand full to 2 hand fulls and so on. We always try to teach the animals that it is oke that we go and that we maybe come back. We also give the animals including the gorillas the chance to practise a behaviour we like to see after we end the session by adding enrichment at the right time, opening gates at the right time and adding reinforcers in the right position after the end of session signal is give.
Maybe this article helps: https://zoospensefull.com/2019/12/23/is-an-end-of-session-signal-effective/
Hi Katarina,
Fantastic questions! You start with a start of session signal and added to this is your observation of which animal doesnt let the other ones come in. This individual you reinforce for the others to come. Slowly you work your way to start of session signal means everybody comes to the same place if thats your criteria. From there you can start working separations, stations etc.
Start by coming closer to them and reinforce for attention to you 🙂
You can also decide to focus on one animal at a time till you have all animals on a place you want them to be on one specific signal.
If the animal in this case the horse reaches criteria and you are like hmm.. maybe the rest didn’t come because this one chased them first… then criteria is not met. You ask a group to come not an individual. 🙂 Does that make sense?
