This badge signifies the completion of the course, We’ve Come a Long Way, Baby! The Evolution of Animal Training Practices.

Ideas that are changing everything!

From outdated methods to cutting-edge strategies, this course explores the huge shifts transforming animal training in zoos and wildlife facilities. You’ll discover why today’s professionals are moving beyond recipes, replacing preference assessments with functional assessments, and embracing constructional approaches that give animals genuine degrees of freedom. Dive into how trainers are shaping repertoires (not suppressing behavior), leveraging both positive and negative reinforcement based on actual contingencies, and ditching “motivation” in favor of identifying potent outcomes. If you’re still doing things the way they were taught 20 years ago…this might be your wake-up call.

This course takes 1 hour to complete.