Precision Behavior

Experience Matters!

 

You won’t find a more experienced team of animal behavior professionals in the zoo consulting field. Our behavior modification methods are based on sound science utilizing positive reinforcement. Regardless of species, regardless of the behavioral challenge, the solutions are found through positive relationships and solid experience. Click links to view each in detail further down the page:

Our Services

• Animal Behavior Management Workshops and Individualized Coaching
  • Animal Training Fundamentals
  • Advanced Animal Training
  • Solutions for Specific Animal Behavioral Issues (Any Species)
  • Medical Training
  • Husbandry Training
  • Dealing with Aggression
  • Training Safely
  • Presentations and Shows
  • Guest Interactions with Animals
  • Animal Enrichment
  • Problem-solving
• Team Training
  • Leadership Seminars
  • Team-building Seminars
  • Continued Staff Growth and Development
  • Create Positive Reinforcement Rich Work Environments (Improve Morale)
  • Curatorial Effectiveness and Synergy
  • Coaching and Feedback Animal Training Sessions with Staff
  • Improve Employee Retention
• Zoological Operations
  • Facility Review
  • Suggestions/Design Assistance for Guest Experience (Improving guest stay-time)
  • Behavior Management Safety Protocols
  • Behavior Management Record Keeping Systems
  • Time Saving Strategies
  • Fundraising Events

All Precision Behavior services are tailored to the needs of the specific facility. Services may be procured at a daily rate or with an extended-service discounted rate.

Frequently Requested Zoo/ Aquarium Packages

Behavior Introduction, 3-Days

This package includes three full days of instruction, hands-on coaching, brainstorming, and facility review. The daily schedule is set by zoo management and typically includes a daily two-hour seminar for the animal care staff. This is the perfect package for zoological facilities that need a refresher in behavior modification or would like to take the first step toward implementation of a positive reinforcement based training program at their institution.

Behavior Fundamentals, 5-Days

This package provides a zoological staff with the foundation skills necessary for implementation of a behavior management program. In addition to fundamental training skills, seminar topics will include problem solving and an introduction to dealing with aggression. This package also includes hands-on coaching of the staff, brainstorming, facility review and additional services at management request.

Behavior Management Jump-Start, 10-Days (2 – 3 separate trips)

This package includes two to three separate visits to your facility (at facilities request). Instructional workshops will include fundamental training skills, problem solving, dealing with aggression, animal enrichment, team building and advanced training methods. This package also includes hands-on coaching to cover all seminar topics, brainstorming, facility review and additional services at management request.

Behavior Management Program Set-Up, 1-year (12 separate trips)

This package includes an initial 5-day consultation to assess your facilities needs, kick-off staff training and immersion, and plan future involvement. Follow up consultations of 3-days each will be scheduled each month for the remaining eleven months. This package includes a full seminar series for the animal care staff including: fundamental training skills, problem solving, dealing with aggressions, animal enrichment, team building, advanced training methods, time-saving strategies and training safely. It also includes a leadership seminar for the management staff as well as hands-on coaching, brainstorming, and additional services at management request. This package also includes assistance in development of behavior management record keeping systems if requested/needed. This package is perfect for the facility that has made the decision to fully implement a behavior management program but needs additional expertise to get the program off the ground, train the staff, and overcome the first year of hurdles.

Contact us to book your package today!

Host a Whale Done Fundraising Event At Your Zoo!

Thad Lacinak, co-author of the New York Times best-seller Whale Done and co-author of the new bookWhale Done Parenting, will give a keynote address at your event!

Topics can include:

• Whale Done: Leadership and How it Relates to the Zoo/Aquarium
• Animal Training in a Zoological Setting
• Whale Done Parenting: Raising Children and How it Relates to the Zoo/Aquarium

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Domestics: Humane Societies, Therapy Dogs, Doggie Daycares

We Train Your Staff

Take your employees’ training skills to the next level with coaching and instruction from two of the top exotic animal trainers in the business. Training dogs (and cats) is best accomplished following the same positive reinforcement strategies and methodologies as are used with exotic animals. We offer the same variety of courses listed above under zoological facilities for domestic facilities as well.

Enable your employees to be the best animal trainers they can be. The animals at your facility and your clients will be the beneficiaries. Make all humane society animals more adoptable. Each course and consultation is tailored to our client’s individualized needs.

Host an Animal Training Workshop at Your Facility for Your Clients

These workshops are taught in an informative and entertaining manner and can be tailored to your clients’ experience level and particular behavioral challenges. We rely on scientifically sound behavior modification principles that have been proven in zoos and aquariums with a variety of species from killer whales to rhinos to orangutans.

We Can:

• Educate your clients with a sound scientific approach to animal training
• Utilize a truly positive system of behavior modification that doesn’t rely on domination tactics
• Improve relationships between owner and companion animal
• Improve your clients’ pet retention
• Bring new clients to your facility
• Bring attention/media/advertising to your facility

“Our institution, Bocalan Confiar, is a branch organization in Chile, representing Bocalan International Foundation in Madrid, Spain. Our main activities are training assistance dogs for people with disabilities, conducting animal-assisted therapy programs and teaching professional training courses for people interested in animal training and in rehabilitation.

Last August, as part of one of our professional training courses, “Monitor de Educación Canina,” we invited Angi and Thad from Precision Behavior to Santiago to teach the behavior modification and aggression management units. It was an honor to have such outstanding world-class trainers in our country and our students and staff were delighted with their great experience and charisma.

Their visit was an opportunity not only for our institution, but also for the two largest zoos in Santiago where Thad and Angi shared their experience and gave valuable advice regarding training, husbandry and animal enrichment to the trainers and caregivers of large mammals such as polar bears, panthers, lions and others.

It was a great opportunity and a luxury to have their presence and share their friendliness and simplicity. We hope to repeat this experience in 2011 and expand it to other Latin American headquarters of the Foundation such as Bocalan Peru, Bocalan Colombia and Bocalan Costa Rica.”

— Cecilia Marre M., Director | Bocalan Confiar, Santiago, Chile

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