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VetBooks.ir speed of behavioural stress (zoo professionals) thigmotaxis 47
acquisition
312–313
Thorndike, Edward 4, 4–5,
7, 8, 53
62, 129–130
sperm whales 69 structured learning 93, 94 tigers 120, 130, 156, 176,
subconscious (trainer’s) 314
squirrel monkeys 29, 87 suffering, capacity 273 313, 327, 334
staff (employees and team Suricata suricatta (meerkat) timber industry, elephants
members) 24, 91, 92, 172–173, 290 187–188
assessment 144–146 survival time (in training)
coaching 155 behaviours (learned) 36–38 commitment 149
consistency 155–156 lost in captivity 37–41 limitations 157
expert 126, 139–140, 156 predator training prior to aquatics 239
grabbing by animal see release into the wild see also speed of behavioural
grabbing and its effects on acquisition; temporal
health and safety see safety 297–298 cognition
responsibilities 310–311 sympathetic nervous system timing of behavioural
for behaviour 140 (trainer’s) 314 consequences
see also people; team syntactic ability 204, 337 56–57
stationing (station training) Tinbergen, N. 35, 36, 167
135–136, 337, 354 t tool use (animal) 20–21,
group setting 328, 329, Tachyglossus aculeatus 26–27, 193
331–332 (echidna) 89 birds 236–237
stereotypies 183, 280, tactile sensation see touch elephants 193
281, 337 tamarins, cotton‐top 173 primates 20–21, 26–27
learning opportunity taming, elephant 188–189 tool use (trainer) 314–315
effects 46–47 tapir, Malayan 163–164 tortoises 221, 223, 224
stimulation, visitors as source target training 125, 134–135 touch
of 174 name targets 332 injections and trainer
stimulus (stimuli) 337 station training vs 135 touching animal 137
aversive see aversive stimuli Taronga Zoo 258, 259, sensation (tactile
and conditioning 264, 264 sensation) 109
bridging 126, 127, 128, 135, taste (gustation) 110 marine mammals
136, 156, 157, 322, 323 conditioned aversion 92, 199, 203
conditioned 6, 16, 335 292–293, 335 toys (pool) 283
return to the wild and marine mammals 204 see also play
296, 297 team training (basic references)
control 19, 131, 337 identifying philosophy and 53–67
discriminative 19, 335 expectations 150–153 active see active training
local enhancement and 23 leadership skills and styles aquatic/marine species
neutral 5, 6 65, 146, 147 fish 239–242
novel/new 101–102, members see staff mammals 197–201
107, 110 successful, creating behaviours specific to
unconditioned 6, 337 146–147 134–139
stingrays 21, 27 telos 272, 273 birds 231–237
stones, use of 20–21, 21, 174 temporal cognition, birds choosing the right method
stress (animals) 273 235–236 53–67
fish 245 terminology, formal list making an informed
learning opportunity effects creating 154 choice 58–61
46–47 in this text 335–337 education and see education
reproduction and 334 theory of mind 236, 337 elephants 183–186