Behavior Blog

This is a personal collection of handwritten iPad sketch-notes for webinars, science papers, books, and various animal behavior studies. Nerdy stuff.

[posts are still being transferred over from my previous website.]

Behavior Blog

Dog Predatory Behavior and Wellbeing

Dog Predatory Behavior and Wellbeing

Lili Chin

December 23, 2022 (slightly edited) I am slowly working my way through some of the The HeartDog International Wellbeing Summit videos. First a quote from this blog post (Academy of Dog Trainers) about normalizing predatory...

Dog Predatory Behavior and Wellbeing

Lili Chin

December 23, 2022 (slightly edited) I am slowly working my way through some of the The HeartDog International Wellbeing Summit videos. First a quote from this blog post (Academy of Dog Trainers) about normalizing predatory...

Studies about Breed Temperaments and Stereotypes

Studies about Breed Temperaments and Stereotypes

Lili Chin

Dec 20, 2022 Here are my rough notes taken from a American Veterinary Society of Animal Behavior (AVSAB) summary of a paper by Lindsay Merkham and Clive Wynne. (2017): "Behavioral...

Studies about Breed Temperaments and Stereotypes

Lili Chin

Dec 20, 2022 Here are my rough notes taken from a American Veterinary Society of Animal Behavior (AVSAB) summary of a paper by Lindsay Merkham and Clive Wynne. (2017): "Behavioral...

People's Perceptions of Dog Welfare

People's Perceptions of Dog Welfare

Lili Chin

Dec 14, 2022 Notes from a paper by Cobb, Lill, and Bennett that Hal Herzog tweeted about recently with regards to the "Lake Wobegon Effect" of dog ownership. I thought...

People's Perceptions of Dog Welfare

Lili Chin

Dec 14, 2022 Notes from a paper by Cobb, Lill, and Bennett that Hal Herzog tweeted about recently with regards to the "Lake Wobegon Effect" of dog ownership. I thought...

Thinking about Street Dogs

Thinking about Street Dogs

Lili Chin

July 23, 2022 Many years ago, I received a request to create a poster of Indian Street Dogs ("Streeties") by a Seattle-based rescue group who would take these dogs off...

Thinking about Street Dogs

Lili Chin

July 23, 2022 Many years ago, I received a request to create a poster of Indian Street Dogs ("Streeties") by a Seattle-based rescue group who would take these dogs off...

Reading BAD DOG, Multispecies Justice

Reading BAD DOG, Multispecies Justice

Lili Chin

[First posted on April 8, 2022, with slight edits] Reading BAD DOG: Pit Bull Politics and Multispecies Justice, by Harlan Weaver. Chapter 1: Interspecies Intersectionality (what Harlan Weaver calls multispecies transformative justice)...

Reading BAD DOG, Multispecies Justice

Lili Chin

[First posted on April 8, 2022, with slight edits] Reading BAD DOG: Pit Bull Politics and Multispecies Justice, by Harlan Weaver. Chapter 1: Interspecies Intersectionality (what Harlan Weaver calls multispecies transformative justice)...

Respondent vs Operant Conditioning

Respondent vs Operant Conditioning

Lili Chin

    I think the concepts are very clear in this infographic but if people are having trouble with the words, hope this helps:   Respondent Conditioning = Classical Conditioning  ...

Respondent vs Operant Conditioning

Lili Chin

    I think the concepts are very clear in this infographic but if people are having trouble with the words, hope this helps:   Respondent Conditioning = Classical Conditioning  ...