Carrots and Sticks

Carrots and Sticks

Principles of Animal Training

Paul McGreevy, Robert Boakes

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Format: hardback
318 pages
ISBN: 9781921364150
Publication: 24 Nov 2011
Publisher: Sydney University Press

Have you ever wondered how a sheepdog, police horse, leopard or octopus is trained? Carrots and Sticks brings behavioural science to life, explaining animal training techniques in the language of learning theory. The first sections on instinct and intelligence, rewards and punishers are richly infused with examples from current training practice, and establish the principles that are explored later in the unique case studies.

Drawing on interviews with leading animal trainers, Carrots and Sticks offers 50 case studies that explore the step-by-step training of a wide variety of companion, working and exotic animals. It reviews the preparation of animals prior to training and common pitfalls encountered.

The book's accessible style will challenge your preconceptions and simplify your approach to all animal-training challenges. This exciting text will prove invaluable to anyone with an interest, amateur or professional, in the general basics of animal training, as well as to students of psychology, veterinary medicine, agriculture and animal science.


Tags: Animal behaviour, Animal studies, Darlington Press, Dog obedience & training, Dog obedience and training, Dogs, Domestic animals & pets, Domestic animals and pets, Ethology, Ethology and animal behaviour, Farm & working animals, Farm and working animals: general interest, General, Life Sciences, Paul McGreevy, PETS, Professional and scholarly, Robert Boakes, SCIENCE, Science and nature, Training & Showing, Wildlife: general interest, Zoology

Paul McGreevy is a professor of animal behaviour and animal welfare science at the University of Sydney.

Robert Boakes is professor emeritus of behavioural science at the University of Sydney.

Preface
Acknowledgements

Part 1: general principles
1. Instincts and their modification
2. Learning theory and positive reinforcement
3. Fear, punishment and avoidance training
4. Animal intelligence

Part 2: case histories
5. Companion and performance animals
6. Exotic animals
7. True working animals

Conclusions
Glossary of terms
Further reading
Select bibliography
Index

'What’s refreshing about Carrots and Sticks: Principles of Animal Training is its firm basis in approved theory and academia, rather than an opinion on what’s worked for one person that may not work for you.'

Format: hardback
Size: 250 x 195 mm
Pages: 318
Illustrations: 30 b&w ill., 368 col. ill., 2 tables
Copyright: 2011
ISBN: 9781921364150
Publication: 24 Nov 2011
318 pages