Animal Training: Successful Animal Management Through Positive Reinforcement by Ken Ramirez

Animal Training: Successful Animal Management Through Positive Reinforcement Reviews

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  Shannon

  An AMAZING resource of articles revolving around the use of positive reinforcement philosophy in marine mammal training that can be applied to other species and every day life!
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  Aggis

  Alright! I've officially completed this monster of a book and my brain is close to exploding with all of the terms/learning theory floating around in it.
  
  Luckily a good chunk of the ending was a collection of references, terms and links or it might have taken more then an extra evening to wade through.
  
  Material wise I enjoyed the book - it is heavily geared toward Marine Mammal training which is not all that surprising given that Ken Ramirez wrote this while managing the training team at Shedd Aquarium. Despite this is found most of the articles extremely relevant and interesting.
  
  There were a couple of items that I did not enjoy: the majority of these were the articles he included surrounding Domestic Animals & Training - he seemed to be a bit stuck in the past in regards to training resources that he used and although the articles didn't mention dominance training it did feel like that was a reoccurring theme. That's not to say that he advocates for an punitive or forceful techniques but just that some of the articles he chose to include were fairly traditional for my tastes.
  
  I also felt that there were at times too many articles that essentially were restating the same point over and over. While I think this repetition was intentional for readers who are newer to the field it did get very monotonous especially in the earlier and more basic chapters of the book.
  
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  Christina

  This book is a MONSTER!