Posts Tagged ‘ training ’

Crate training macaws and an exciting weekend ahead

Feb 4th, 2010 | By Mary Hunter | Category: ORCA

by Martin Pettitt, on Flickr
I volunteer with ORCA at the Heard Museum about once a week. (ORCA is a lab in UNT’s behavior analysis department that focuses on animal training.) One project for this semester is crate training the museum’s two blue and gold macaws. During the fall and spring, Texas can have crazy [...]



Equine Artists

Mar 27th, 2009 | By Mary Hunter | Category: Horse Training

I love positive training methods and clicker training because it opens up a whole range of new behaviors we can teach our animals that could never be possible with traditional methods. I’ve recently found a new blog that I love. Cheryl, the woman who owns the website, has taught all four of her horses to [...]



ORCA: Part 5. Steve White

Mar 22nd, 2009 | By Mary Hunter | Category: ORCA

These are my notes from the ORCA Great Minds conference at UNT in March 2009. The Great Minds conference brought half a dozen top trainers together to talk about animal training, clicker training, operant conditioning and the future of training. This is the fifth post of my thoughts and notes and the second page about [...]



ORCA: Part 4. Steve White

Mar 22nd, 2009 | By Mary Hunter | Category: ORCA

These are my notes from the ORCA Great Minds conference at UNT in March 2009. The Great Minds conference brought half a dozen top trainers together to talk about animal training, clicker training, operant conditioning and the future of training. This is the fourth post of my thoughts and notes and the first page of [...]



ORCA: Part 3. Steve Martin

Mar 22nd, 2009 | By Mary Hunter | Category: ORCA

These are my notes from the ORCA Great Minds conference at UNT in March 2009. The Great Minds conference brought half a dozen top trainers together to talk about animal training, clicker training, operant conditioning and the future of training. This is the third post of my thoughts and notes and the last page of [...]