Chapter 2: Shaping
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Lads Before the Wind. Karen Pryor. New York: Harper and Row, 1975. Waltham, MA: Sunshine Books, 1994, 2000.

“A day of great illumination: B.F. Skinner’s discovery of shaping.” Gail B. Peterson. 2004. Journal of Experimental Analysis of Behavior 82:317-28.

“The colony of Red-footed boobies (Sula sula rubripes) at Oahu Sea Life Park.” Karen Pryor and Ingrid Kang. 1969. International Zoo Yearbook.

“Sea Life Park and the Oceanic Institute.” Karen Pryor. 1967.
Curator. Vol. 3. New York: American Museum of Natural History.

“The behavior and training of cetaceans in captivity.” R. H. DeFran and Karen Pryor. 1980. In Cetacean Behavior: Mechanisms and Functions, ed. Louis Herman. New York: Wiley-Interscience.

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Photos: Sea Life Park Gallery

Video: Spotted and Spinner Dolphins
Video: False Killer Whale Double Jump
Video: Shaping Demonstration: Blowing Bubbles
Video: Spinner Dolphins Spinning
Video: Boomer High-Five
Video: Puppy Chase Game
Video: Scotty with Ball

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Group of spinner dolphins porpoising

“Pryor strikingly demonstrates how ethological expertise—knowledge of a subject’s basic biology and behavior—is a prerequisite for success in animal training. Her knowledge of the differing capacities of various species, of their instinctual and sensory processes and their malleability, of how this information can be exploited in relationship to humans, are underlying factors that most other books on the subject ignore.”

Irene Pepperberg
author of Alex and Me