Training animals outside the Skinner box: Dr. Bob Bailey on the origins of the use of operant conditioning in the commercial realm and beyond

Dr. Bob Bailey first started training animals professionally more than six decades ago, when he was hired by the military to train dolphins at sea. On that job, he first crossed paths with a couple whose work he'd read read about: Keller and Marian Breland. The Brelands had learned how to use operant conditioning to train animals while working as graduate students in BF Skinner's lab at the university of Minnesota, and were the first to bring the technology out of the lab. Keller's guide to using operant conditioning to train dolphins majorly influenced the career of Karen Pryor, who would later work to bring these force-free methods to dog owners. Dr. Bailey would joined forces with them, and eventually helmed their business, Animal Behavior Enterprises. In advance of a screening of Dr. Bailey's short film Patient like The Chipmunks, Annie interviews Dr. Bailey about his incredible career, the origins of "clicker training," the importance of learning how to train chickens,  the progressiveness (or lack there of) in the world of modern dog training, and more.

Sign up for the May 22nd screening (and info on buying the Patient Like The Chipmunks DVD)

http://schoolforthedogs.com/bailey

Photos, manuals and details about Animal Behavior Enterprise and IQ Zoo exhibits:

https://www3.uca.edu/iqzoo/Exhibits/exhibits.htm

https://www3.uca.edu/iqzoo/documents/documents.htm

Related episodes:

A brief history of modern dog training

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/bonus-brief-history-modern-dog-training-audio-lecture/id1355439730?i=1000514845966

Reading of Page 9 of Dr. Bob Bailey's site

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/bonus-training-wisdom-from-page-9-dr-bob-baileys-website/id1355439730?i=1000515871429

Reading of The Misbehavior of Organisms by Marian and Keller Breland

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/misbehavior-organisms-brelands-impactful-article-on/id1355439730?i=1000518316750

Reading of The ABCs of Behavior by Marian Breland 

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/bonus-annie-reads-from-abcs-behavior-by-marian-breland/id1355439730?i=1000516823369

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