Friday Abstracts

Training Sloth Bears (Melusus Ursinus), Grizzly Bears (Ursus Arctos Horribilis) and Andean Bears (Tremarctos Ornatus) for Voluntary Blood Draws in a
​Restricted Contact Setting at Cleveland Metroparks Zoo

Curt Gindlesperger, Angel Mitchell, Patty Young, Kevin Roxbury, Michael Murray, 
Cleveland Metroparks Zoo


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How Many Trainers Is Too Many?
​Managing Behavior of Education Raptors with 45 Trainers

Daniel Hnilicka, 
The Raptor Center - University of Minne


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Choice-Based Training Improves
​Animal Welfare and Program Participation in Ambassador Animals

Sarah Dugger and Stefanie Keshock, 
Denver Zoo


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How the Results of a Pilot Study
of Captive AZA Orangutan Preference
​Can Inform the Care, Training,
and Future Conservation of Orangutans

Shelly Donohue,
Cincinnati Zoo & Botanical Garden


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Engaging the Public and Animals Alike: Innovative Training of the Barnyard Inhabitants at Santa Barbara Zoo

Melanie Baudour,
Santa Barbara Zoo


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The Top 10 Behaviors
of
​Expert Animal Trainers

Steve Martin,
Natural Encounters, Inc


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A Tale of a Tail:
Choice and Control with a Male Lion

Amanda Ista,
Milwaukee County Zoo


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A Little Bit of
Country-Radio Choice
​for Equine Enrichment

Tara Gifford,
Ohio Animal Training


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Bridging the Gap between Theory & Practice: Current Research on the Relationship between Live-Animal Interactions and Pro-Environmental Behavior Change

Nicolette Canzoneri,
Oregon State University


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What Can You Do With Your Monkey?

Jenyva Fox,
Cheyenne Mountain Zoo


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​The 10,000 Pound Elephant in the E.R.D.
Training an Adult Bull Elephant to
Allow Containment in an
​Elephant Restraint Device.

Eric Duning, Rickey Kinley,
Cincinnati Zoo and Botanical Garden


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Wolf Animal-Assisted Therapy

Gaby Dufrense-Cyr,
Dogue Shop / Park Safari


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Variances in Behavioral Conditioning of Releasable and Non-Releasable Lake Sturgeon (Acipenser Fulvescens)

Zac Reynolds,
SEA LIFE Michigan Aquarium


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