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Ari and Chris are back together and excited to be joined by Joey Golden, Curator of Animal Behavior Programs at Maryland Zoo! Chris and Joey both attended the recent ABMA and ISZAW conferences, and we wanted to bring him on to chat about the great presentations he gave about his zoo's progress towards "24/7 welfare" for all their animals. We chat about the importance of leaning on innovators, how Hal Markowitz has influenced his thinking about the importance of automation in modern animal care, the new role of Microsoft's PowerBI in collecting and interpreting pretty much every kind of data in a zoo you can think of, and why all of us should be focused on observation, interpretation, and improvement. Such a cool discussion!
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Play Later Play Later Lists Like LikedWith Chris busy being immersed in our Immersion Workshop, Ari is joined once more by Adam Geltz (Senior Trainer, Natural Encounters, Inc.) to discuss a listener email asking us to share some thoughts about cultivating great animal trainers. They start by talking about setting up strong antecedents to foster a safe environment for learning, move on to building training skills through offering and accepting valuable feedback, and finally chat about finding reinforcers that encourage more training and learning in the future. Come break it all down with us! If you have a shout-out you’d like us to share, a question or a topic you’d like us to discuss, or a suggestion for a guest we should have on the show, let us know at podcast@naturalencounters.com ! References from the show: The Jocko Podcast with Jocko Willink The Top 10 Behaviors of Expert Trainers by Steve Martin The Top 10 Behaviors of Expert Human Mentors by Chris Jenkins The TEC Talk Library of Behavior and Training Webinars Behavior Analysis and Learning by W David Pierce and Carl D. Cheney Learning and Behavior by Paul Chance Don't Shoot the Dog by Karen Pryor Crucial Conversations : Tools for Talking When Stakes Are High Animal Training by Ken Ramirez…
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