Have you ever had a brain block when it comes to an animal training, behavior, or husbandry conundrum? Something cropped up or changed, you tried everything you could think of and got no answers or change? It happens to all of us, I think. Whether...
I was reading the LA Times at my breakfast table before work sipping coffee only to be surprised by the soft, familiar click-clack of vulture talons coming down the hallway and a fuzzy baby vulture face peer around the corner at me. It was Huxley,...
I wrote an article about the many risks facing companion parrot owners that were considering training their birds for free flight in 2014, and my conclusion was essentially “Please don’t.” The stipulation to that is that in-person guided mentorship is a critical component that is most...
This article is a reprint from our 2014 learningparrots.com article. This paper went on to be translated in to seven different languages, and I presented it in front of audiences in three different countries. [caption id="attachment_2581" align="alignright" width="300"] Author Hillary Hankey on a training project with...
In this age of the ever-expanding human population, we see so many headlines of people doing horrible things and animals bear the brunt of our callousness towards each other. The story of Plucker, my red tailed hawk that I hunt with for falconry here in...