I wrote this post as a guest post for Zoospenseful. Animal trainers? Behaviourists? Zookeepers We debate what to call people who work with and train animals. It may be more pertinent to call us Animal Behaviour Managers. Here is why. Anyone can train a trick. It is basic conditioning 101 that enables our ability to do this. Ensuring the welfare of animal’s in our care is greatly enhanced because we can train tricks. Examples of tricks that are good for welfare of animals in human care: - Easeful medical behaviours that enable proactive animal care - Fun engaging mental stimulation in the process of ‘talking to animals’ - Animal’s exercising in the game of training Is training ‘tricks’ enough? The best animal care specialists out there say no. In the larger scheme of things, we need to take full responsibility for the psychological welfare of the animals in our care. To illustrate, let us look at our family p
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