Mary is a regular commenter here on the Ark Animals blog. Here you can see her initial attempts at training the horse’s head movement away from her. I am hoping she will leave us a comment as to her criteria or if she is accepting any movement and when, if ever, she will set a [...]
Why did I start training animals?
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I was watching an educational video today by a successful online businessman. He was discussing living your dream life and one of the things he asked was, “What would your ideal day be?” Funny, I was asked a similar question years ago. The person actually asked me, “What would you be doing if you could [...]
Animal Attack Chat
Early in my career I was part of the enrichment for Corky and Orky, the killer whales once housed at Marineland in California. In fact, I considered myself enrichment for a wide variety of animals housed there–including a few walruses, sea lions, dolphins–but somehow not for Bubbles the pilot whale. Go figure. They were always [...]