Tag: Zoo
Relationship Status: In a Relationship or It’s Complicated?
As animal care professionals we talk a lot about the relationships we have with the animals we care for. All of us...
How Kolmården Zoo’s Training System Gave Hours Back to Their Keepers
Kolmårdens Wildlife Park is a zoo located south of Stockholm on the rocks of Sweden. Covering 370 acres they can call themselves the biggest...
The Importance of Proper Nutrition – Louise Guevara, Veterinarian
Positive reinforcement is not just applying an object or food source what helps increase the behaviour you want. It actually goes a lot further...
Making Decisions Can Make Or Break The Training Session
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...
Training Medical Procedures; Urine Sampling
All of us who have animals in their life are connected to veterinarian technicians. Animals do get medical challenges running through their lives. As...
The Zoo Scientist; Zoos as Science Boosters
The need to discover new things and the curiosity to explain the unknown has led us to where we are now. It was the...
Training With A Laser Pointer
The Human Specie is an interesting specie to work with. They have strong social bonds and detailed complex thinking. Some are extraordinary smart and...
Top 6 myths about zoos
We all meet these myths almost every day. Lets just bust them once and for all, ok? Feel free to share and use, as...
Training a Group for Individual Reach, How?
Over the years in my career I had the privilege to learn many new ways of training. My killer whale path took me to...
5 Animals That Wouldn’t Exist Without Zoos
Conservation plays a big role in zoos today. Some of the work we do is long term and it can be hard be hard...
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Training for Enrichment
In a modern zoo, exhibits are built with the species specific requirements in mind, and designed as close to wild and natural....
5 Strategies to Avoid Using Punishment
There are many reasons to use reinforcement over punishment. Easier said than done one may think, but the idea relies on ones...
A Shaping Plan; How To Build A Proper Plan
Training animals requires a lot of communication from both sides. We are not able to talk with our animals but we can...
