How are sea animals trained?
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I learned how to teach my horses, based on the type of training most sea animal trainers use. This is clicker training. You associate a requested behavior, with a treat reward…ie…food they like, for example, for my horses, is was apple slices. Then associate the reward with the sound of a clicker. Then the clicker becomes the reward. I further associated the clicker sound with the verbal command, for example, “back up”. I was eventually able to say, “back up” to my horses, and they followed through without any further reward, however, I always gave them a kind word, and pat anyway. There is no punishment, other than no reward for no action.
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