Behavior Blog
Behavior Blog
Are These Cats Playing?
March 1, 2022 I keep asking myself if Mambo and Shimmy are "playing or fighting" when they get into dramatic interactions, and I am learning that this may not be...
Are These Cats Playing?
March 1, 2022 I keep asking myself if Mambo and Shimmy are "playing or fighting" when they get into dramatic interactions, and I am learning that this may not be...
Animal Welfare and Degrees of Freedom (updated)
FREEDOM and GENUINE CHOICES. What do these mean? Notes from a presentation by Joe Layng and more.
Animal Welfare and Degrees of Freedom (updated)
FREEDOM and GENUINE CHOICES. What do these mean? Notes from a presentation by Joe Layng and more.
EMOTIONS as contingencies
Dec 28,2021 Notes from a 2019 Susan Friedman interview (ATA webisode). June 4, 2021 Also an early post combined here: Lisa Feldman Barrett on how emotions are made. Traditionally,...
EMOTIONS as contingencies
Dec 28,2021 Notes from a 2019 Susan Friedman interview (ATA webisode). June 4, 2021 Also an early post combined here: Lisa Feldman Barrett on how emotions are made. Traditionally,...
AnimalFACS workshop, CatFACS manual
Nov 21, 2021 AnimalFACS is a system of coding facial expressions/behavior and I have been very excited to do this (FREE) workshop because: I have illustration jobs/projects that require me to draw animal...
AnimalFACS workshop, CatFACS manual
Nov 21, 2021 AnimalFACS is a system of coding facial expressions/behavior and I have been very excited to do this (FREE) workshop because: I have illustration jobs/projects that require me to draw animal...
Penguin Enrichment study
September 6, 2021 Most of the notes I have posted here were created while watching webinars. These notes are different because the information comes from a science paper: Training Penguins...
Penguin Enrichment study
September 6, 2021 Most of the notes I have posted here were created while watching webinars. These notes are different because the information comes from a science paper: Training Penguins...
Constructional Approaches (CAAWT conference)
July 26, 2021 I first heard of C.A.T. back in around 2010 when I, a new dog person, had written to a Dogster.com behavior advice column asking for help with my "aggressive...
Constructional Approaches (CAAWT conference)
July 26, 2021 I first heard of C.A.T. back in around 2010 when I, a new dog person, had written to a Dogster.com behavior advice column asking for help with my "aggressive...