Word: behavioristic
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...Pace with Becksett, Sequentia Reflection in Arabin - compete for titles and trophies. In between the primping and tense sessions with nervous owners in the ring, the animals spend hours in cages or in the confines of their small slots on long, partitioned benches. According to dog trainer and behaviorist Carol Price, writing in the monthly magazine Dogs Today, some animals "spend most of their lives in crates or restricted runs, only coming out when it's time for another competition and another chance to make their owners shine." Is this supposed to be fun? The answer must...
...where gannets plunged like dive bombers into shoals of herring that had been rounded up by a pod of orcas. When eventually the pod left the feeding ground, Keiko swam in line with them. "It's like taking your kid to school for his first day," says animal behaviorist Jeff Foster, who has worked with whales for 30 years. But Keiko did not, Hollywood-style, swim off with his relatives into the sunset on this August day. Once again he returned to the boat and his more familiar human companions...
...Animal behaviorist Temple Grandin, who designed more than one-third of all livestock-handling facilities in the U.S., explained the connection between cows and autism to a packed audience last night in Science Center...
...presence of cameras in their private quarters will encourage the endangered pair to make a little panda whoopee is a anyone's guess, but zookeepers want the world to be watching, just in case. ?If we have the good fortune for it to happen,? said Donald Linburg, a behaviorist at the zoo?s reproduction center, ?naturally we won?t try to hide...
...Socks is going through a tough time. Deirdre Ryan-Rivas, an animal-behavior counselor with the ASPCA, says Socks "is going to be a little upset. The cat needs to have a room of his own. Fortunately, they have a lot to choose from." Dr. Bonnie Beaver, a veterinary behaviorist at Texas A&M, agrees. "The biggest problem you worry about is that the dog can bother the cat around the litter-box area. The cat gets all postured and ready to eliminate and along comes this pest. So a lot of them stop using the litter...