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Learn how to target train your fish in this video. For more info, visit http://www.clickertraining.tv
Watch as Karen Pryor demonstrates how clicker training can be used with all types of animals, including a fish! Excerpted from Clicker Magic, available in full-length or individual lessons. From the ClickFlicks Learning Center. http://www.clickertraining.tv
"Clicker training" is the popular term for the training or teaching method based on what we know about how living organisms learn.
Research has shown that any creatureâ€â€Âwhether a dog, cat, dolphin, parrot, fish, horse, llama, or personâ€â€Âis more likely to learn and repeat actions that result in consequences it desires and enjoys. So clicker trainers provide consequences desired by their animal in exchange for actions or behaviors desired by their trainers.
We call these consequences "rewards" and the process is called "reinforcement." Clicker training, therefore, is a positive-reinforcement-based system of training.
First widely used by dolphin trainers who needed a way to teach behavior without using physical force, op