“In due course I would learn how to cover up for this event, but on that awful day I knew of nothing to say but: 'Well, I guess they aren't going to do that either, heh, heh." FINALLY Hoku and… — Karen Pryor Copy Share Image
“The porpoises and whale themselves, in their quests for entertainment, often created problems. One summer a fashion developed in the training tanks (I think Keiki started it) for leaning out over the tank wall and seeing how far you could… — Karen Pryor Copy Share Image
“In due course I would learn how to cover up for this event, but on that awful day I knew of nothing to say… — Karen Pryor Copy Share
“As he [Sir Malcolm Sargeant, conductor of the London Philharmonic] stood in waist deep in the shallows of Whaler's Cove, the littler spinners came… — Karen Pryor Copy Share
“One reason punishment doesn't usually work is that it does not coincide with the undesirable behavior; it occurs afterward, and sometimes, as in courts… — Karen Pryor Copy Share
“Nancy taught two hens to help her sort flowers to make leis. She set them down by a basket of three colors of plastic… — Karen Pryor Copy Share
“I couldn't help wondering where porpoises had learned this game of running on the bows of ships. Porpoises have been swimming in the oceans… — Karen Pryor Copy Share
“Training is a loop, a two-way communication in which an event at one end of the loop changes events at the other, exactly like… — Karen Pryor Copy Share
“I griped about it at lunch one day to Bill Weist and Dr. Leslie Squier, our visiting psychologists from Reed College. I'd been trying… — Karen Pryor Copy Share
“My idea of recreation in those busy years, was to leave the porpoise training for an hour or two, round up a bunch of… — Karen Pryor Copy Share
“The porpoises and whale themselves, in their quests for entertainment, often created problems. One summer a fashion developed in the training tanks (I think… — Karen Pryor Copy Share
“...that aversives stop behavior, they don’t start it; and that fear and pain produce completely unpredictable and usually highly undesirable side effects, including being… — Karen Pryor Copy Share
