Each encounter with an animal is a learning opportunity. Antecedents, behavior, and consequences all have important roles in everyday behavior. We can create positive experiences through training and those experiences coincide with our interaction with them. Here is a replay of a live-stream I did the other day in our Membership program, experimenting with a trick I used to do with Rocky shortly after I adopted him over 13 years ago. This was our first time interacting with this exercise in 13 y

The studies looking at animal behavior and problem solving skills are endlessly fascinating, but the true challenge is understanding what exactly it is we are studying without tripping over our own biases. This is something we explored in our last podcast and YouTube, famously referring to the myth that apes understand sign language and Alex the African Grey Parrot was capable of language as well. The string pulling experiment is one that many researchers thought reflected causal reasoning, the