Page 9 - Zoo Animal Learning and Training

Contents ix

VetBooks.ir Box B9 The Learning Repertoire of Reptiles 227
Gordon M. Burghardt

Box B10 Training Birds from a Zoo Professional’s Perspective 231
Heidi Hellmuth

Box B11 Learning and Cognition in Birds 235
Jackie Chappell

Box B12 Species‐specific Considerations when Planning and Implementing Training
with Aquatics 239
Heather Williams

Box B13 The Cognitive Abilities of Fish 243
Culum Brown

Part C More Than A to B: How Zoo Animal Training Programmes
Can Impact Zoo Operations and Mission 247

10 Making Training Educational for Zoo Visitors 249
Katherine Whitehouse‐Tedd, Sarah Spooner, and Gerard Whitehouse‐Tedd

11 Welfare Implications of Zoo Animal Training 271
Vicky A. Melfi and Samantha J. Ward

12 Training Animals in Captivity or the Wild, so They Can Return to the Wild 289
Jonathan Webb

13 Last but in Fact Most Importantly … Health and Safety 309
Tim Sullivan

Bigger Training Consideration Boxes
For some of the topics we felt it might be helpful to provide a box outside to the general
text to consider some bigger concepts in animal training. These include ‘training multiple
animals’ by Kirstin Anderson-Hansen and a concluding positive note on including training
within zoo animal management programmes by Gary Priest.

Box C1 Training Animals in a Group Setting 327
Kirstin Anderson‐Hansen

Box C2 This Generation’s Challenge 333
Gary Priest

Glossary 335

Index 339