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Reaching the Animal Mind

Clicker Training and What it Teaches Us About All Animals

Reaching the Animal Mind
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Drawing upon more than forty years of experience training animals, Karen Pryor’s all-positive reinforcement clicker-training system provides a safe, effective way to modify and shape behavior. With nothing more than an inexpensive, plastic, handheld clicker available in most pet stores, Karen can teach anyone to train animals by simply rewarding wanted behaviors (click!) and ignoring the unwanted. No leash-jerking. No yelling. Animals quickly learn that one behavior gets them a reinforcing click and a bit of food, and undesirable behaviors get them, well, nothing at all. Given the choice, animals quickly focus on what works and abandon what doesn’t.

Using clear, accessible language that makes it easy for anyone to master Pryor’s training system, and anecdotes about some of her more interesting pupils, she entertains as she teaches: ponies are taught to surf; gloomy birds learn how to play; a rhinoceros routinely leans against a fence for a pedicure. And, Pryor provides Web addresses where the reader can access video of the actual training sessions that she describes.

Practical and engrossing, ?Pryor explains the science behind her system, how and why it works, its applications for teaching humans, and offers a fascinating glimpse into the minds of animals, both tame and wild.

Scribner; June 2009
320 pages; ISBN 9781416546252
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1416546251
9780743297776
9781416546252