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VetBooks.ir Part B Types of Learning That Can Be Achieved in a Zoo Environment 81

What Is There to Learn in a Zoo Setting? 83
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Fay Clark
6 Environmental Enrichment: The Creation of Opportunities for Informal Learning 101
Robert John Young, Cristiano Schetini de Azevedo, and Cynthia Fernandes Cipreste

7 The Art of ‘Active’ Training 119
Steve Martin

8 Integrating Training into Animal Husbandry 143
Marty Sevenich‐MacPhee

9 Us and Them: Human–Animal Interactions as Learning Events 167
Geoff Hosey and Vicky A. Melfi

Taxa Specific Boxes
Consideration of species specific differences in cognitive ability are explored in academic
boxes and the considerations necessary to practically implement training with different
species are explored in professional boxes below.

Box B1 Elephant Training in Zoos 183
Greg A. Vicino

Box B2 Human–Elephant Interactions in Semi‐captive Asian Elephants of Myanmar 187
Khyne U. Mar
Box B3 Elephant Cognition: An Overview 191
Sarah L. Jacobson and Joshua M. Plotnik

Box B4 Marine Mammal Training 197
Sabrina Brando

Box B5 Cognitive Abilities of Marine Mammals 203
Gordon B. Bauer

Box B6 The Application of Positive Reinforcement Training to Enhance Welfare of Primates
in Zoological Collections 211
Jim Mackie

Box B7 Species‐specific Considerations: Primate Learning 217
Betsy Herrelko
Box B8 Training Reptiles in Zoos: A Professional Perspective 221
Richard Gibson