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Reaching the Animal Mind: Clicker Training and What It Teaches Us about All Animals eBook
by Karen Pryor
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Reaching the Animal Mind: Clicker Training and What It Teaches Us about All Animals Summary
| Spanning more than thirty years in the career of the founder of clicker training, Reaching the Animal Mind takes the reader through the breakthrough years training spinner and spotter dolphins to the ever-widening application of no punishment training for animals of all kinds. In clear, every person's language, Pryor explains operant conditioning and then introduces us to some of the multitudes who benefited. We meet ponies that surf, Loon the dangerous baboon, a tiger who needed a blood test, clicker trained rhinos, giraffes and polar bears; a clicker trained police dog who pulls off a "hat trick," and, at the Philadelphia Zoo, the world's gloomiest birds who are taught how to play. Pryor also explores the highly successful applications for humans - sports and athletic training and behavior modification for autistics - before giving how-to information on how to clicker train your own: teaching you cat to give a High Five, teaching your dog to find the clicker or the car keys, and a simple clicker recipe for all dog owners re: any behavior you don't want. Part Animals in Translation, part The Dog Whisperer, this book combines science, mesmerizing stories and how-to in a book that will become invaluable to anyone who has an animal in their life, domestic or otherwise. |
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