Spanning more than thirty years in the career of the founder of clicker training, Reaching the Animal Mind takes the reader through the breakthrough years training spinner and spotter dolphins to the ever-widening application of no punishment training for animals of all kinds. In clear, every person's language, Pryor explains operant conditioning and then introduces us to some of the multitudes who benefited. We meet ponies that surf, Loon the dangerous baboon, a tiger who needed a blood test, clicker trained rhinos, giraffes and polar bears; a clicker trained police dog who pulls off a "hat trick," and, at the Philadelphia Zoo, the world's gloomiest birds who are taught how to play.Spanning more than thirty years in the career of the founder of clicker training, Reaching the Animal Mind takes the reader through the breakthrough years training spinner and spotter dolphins to the ever-widening application of no punishment training for animals of all kinds. In clear, every person's language, Pryor explains operant conditioning and then introduces us to some of the multitudes who benefited. We meet ponies that surf, Loon the dangerous baboon, a tiger who needed a blood test, clicker trained rhinos, giraffes and polar bears; a clicker trained police dog who pulls off a "hat trick," and, at the Philadelphia Zoo, the world's gloomiest birds who are taught how to play.