National Geodetic Survey officials say the Four Corners marker showing the intersection of Arizona, Colorado, New Mexico and Utah is about 2.5 miles (4 kilometers) west of where it should be, the Deseret News reported.
The only place in the United States where four state boundaries come together was first surveyed by the government in 1868 [...]

We’ve been talk about shaping in class, which is one of the neatest things about clicker training. (Actually, there are a lot of neat things about clicker training!) Shaping is teaching a new behavior through successive approximations. Basically, you start with a very low criteria and gradually increase your criteria until you reach your target [...]

How do we train our dogs? Do we need to be the alpha dog, the most dominant member of the pack, and insist that our dogs obey us, even if we must use force or punishment? This is the view still advocated by many trainers, but is it a scientifically sound way to train our [...]

Sometimes it’s embarrassing to be a Texan…
Shouldn’t scientists and those who are experts in the fields of biology and evolution be the ones who decide what goes in textbooks?
The vast majority of scientists and biologist accept evolution and natural selection as the best theories to explain our world. This doesn’t mean they understand completely how [...]

ORCA, one of the organizations run by the behavior analysis department at the Univerisity of North Texas is sponsoring a conference on Friday on “The Art and Science of Animal Training: Where Are We Now? Where Are We Going?”
I was able to sign up to go cheaply, since I’m taking classes at UNT. They have [...]