Renki Teeters, Wolfgang Leaps at Wolf Park

The behaviors were ones the wolves came up with on their own. We put them on cue by the "mark and capture" method where the animal is rewarded for a behavior that the trainer likes, and then the animal is taught what the trainer calls the behavior and that the animal will be rewarded for offering the behavior when the trainer asks for it by name or gesture.

Reinforcing behaviors like this offers a pleasant way of the wolves of combining environmental enrichment and increasing safety for humans by giving the wolves a number of behaviors to perform on cue. It can be used to interrupt or distract a wolf that is about to perform an undesirable behavior involving humans, so it can be a great help in interacting safely with the wolves.

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