Animal Behaviour Research chatty theenie Education Research Human-Animal Interactions
Chronicles of Athena: Chatty Theenie
I’m training Athena how to use Augmented and Assisted Communication tools (talk buttons!) Want to know more?
Knowledge Transfer
Punishment is Dangerous
Last week I spoke about punishment as a training aid, and denounced the way some people say you should never punish when training. But it’s very important to recognise that punishment is very dangerous and should be used sparingly. I really wanted to put this in the last week’s post, Read more…
Knowledge Transfer
Who’s a Pretty Boy Then?
Working in the world of international animal welfare as I have been doing in the last couple of months, you are confronted by your own innate biases. These are little (or big!) ideas you have about animal welfare that influence the way you think about it and the choices you Read more…
Tea Break
LolCats and Doge, YouTube and Animal Behaviour
In 2013 Nelson & Fijn published an absolutely brilliant paper in Animal Behaviour. It’s called ‘The use of visual media as a tool for investigating animal behaviour‘ and it’s about watching animals on YouTube. I watch a lot of animals on YouTube so I love this paper. It provides a Read more…
