The Animal Behavior Center, LLC at The Animal Behavior Center, LLC.
· 22 hrs ·
Shaping change in our animals' environments. One of the biggest pieces of advice I can give to any animal caretaker, is keep your animal used to change. This needs to be done at the animal's pace, not our assumptions of what they should be comfortable with. This involves shaping - reinforcing small approximations to the changing environment. Yesterday in The Parrot Project, I did a live-stream showing how we introduced a new perch into Koko's cage. This could be a very stress...ful situation to Koko, especially since he is a prey animal, has something installed overhead, and based on behavior, doesn't have a history of change within his enclosure or immediate environments, at least not at his pace. We are working on shaping change within his enclosure and pairing it with positive experiences and will continue to keep this moving forward to empower his future.
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· 22 hrs ·
Shaping change in our animals' environments. One of the biggest pieces of advice I can give to any animal caretaker, is keep your animal used to change. This needs to be done at the animal's pace, not our assumptions of what they should be comfortable with. This involves shaping - reinforcing small approximations to the changing environment. Yesterday in The Parrot Project, I did a live-stream showing how we introduced a new perch into Koko's cage. This could be a very stress...ful situation to Koko, especially since he is a prey animal, has something installed overhead, and based on behavior, doesn't have a history of change within his enclosure or immediate environments, at least not at his pace. We are working on shaping change within his enclosure and pairing it with positive experiences and will continue to keep this moving forward to empower his future.
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