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title: "2 Dolphin Quotes By Karen Pryor"
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> [“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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/karen-pryor/in-due-course-i-would-learn-how-to-cover-up-for-this-event-but-on/)

[Karen Pryor](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/karen-pryor/)

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> [“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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/karen-pryor/the-porpoises-and-whale-themselves-in-their-quests-for-entertainment/)

[Karen Pryor](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/karen-pryor/)

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## More by Karen Pryor

> [“In due course I would learn how to cover up for this event, but on that awful day I knew of nothing to say…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/karen-pryor/in-due-course-i-would-learn-how-to-cover-up-for-this-event-but-on/)

[Karen Pryor](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/karen-pryor/)

> [ “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… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/karen-pryor/as-he-sir-malcolm-sargeant-conductor-of-the-london-philharmonic-stood/)

[Karen Pryor](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/karen-pryor/)

> [“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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/karen-pryor/one-reason-punishment-doesn-t-usually-work-is-that-it-does-not/)

[Karen Pryor](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/karen-pryor/)

> [“Nancy taught two hens to help her sort flowers to make leis. She set them down by a basket of three colors of plastic…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/karen-pryor/nancy-taught-two-hens-to-help-her-sort-flowers-to-make-leis-she-set/)

[Karen Pryor](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/karen-pryor/)

> [“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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/karen-pryor/i-couldn-t-help-wondering-where-porpoises-had-learned-this-game-of/)

[Karen Pryor](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/karen-pryor/)

> [“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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/karen-pryor/training-is-a-loop-a-two-way-communication-in-which-an-event-at-one/)

[Karen Pryor](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/karen-pryor/)

> [“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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/karen-pryor/i-griped-about-it-at-lunch-one-day-to-bill-weist-and-dr-leslie-squier/)

[Karen Pryor](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/karen-pryor/)

> [“My idea of recreation in those busy years, was to leave the porpoise training for an hour or two, round up a bunch of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/karen-pryor/my-idea-of-recreation-in-those-busy-years-was-to-leave-the-porpoise/)

[Karen Pryor](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/karen-pryor/)

> [“The porpoises and whale themselves, in their quests for entertainment, often created problems. One summer a fashion developed in the training tanks (I think…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/karen-pryor/the-porpoises-and-whale-themselves-in-their-quests-for-entertainment/)

[Karen Pryor](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/karen-pryor/)

> [“that aversives stop behavior, they don’t start it; and”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/karen-pryor/that-aversives-stop-behavior-they-don-t-start-it-and/)

[Karen Pryor](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/karen-pryor/)

> [“...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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/karen-pryor/that-aversives-stop-behavior-they-don-t-start-it-and-that-fear-and/)

[Karen Pryor](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/karen-pryor/)

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