Onlinevortrag mit Susan Friedman “The Animals are Waiting: A “Freeing Up the Operant”"

Name: Onlinevortrag mit Susan Friedman “The Animals are Waiting: A “Freeing Up the Operant”"
Start: 2025-01-22T19:00:00+01:00
End: 2025-01-22T20:30:00+01:00
Location: AnimalTrainingCenter

Schedule

Wed Jan 22 2025 at 07:00 pm to 08:30 pm

UTC+01:00

Location

AnimalTrainingCenter | Graz, ST

22.1.2025 um 19 Uhr
"The Animals are Waiting: A “Freeing Up the Operant” Approach to Environmental Enrichment at Zoos"

After a training session has ended, animals are typically turned-out into less controlled habitats where trainers have prearranged so-called enrichment opportunities (devices and conditions) intended to induce active animals who behave similarly to their wild counterparts. However, the goals of environmental enrichment, as suggested by Markowitz (1982), have never been realized.
Recently at Cheyenne Mountain Zoo, we have taken a free operant approach to environmental enrichment. With this approach, trainers engineer environments so that animals are free to make any possible operant response.
Three important dimensions have emerged when selecting and creating enrichment opportunities, i.e., time to satiation, time to depletion and “dosage.”
Details:
22.1.2025, 19 - 20:30 Uhr Online Veranstaltung via Zoom
Frühbucherrabatt bis 31.12.2024: 35€, danach 40€
Exklusives Q&A für Teilnehmer der ATC Academy: 20:30 Uhr.
Ohne Aufzeichnung. Der Vortrag findet auf englisch statt.
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