Thinking About Dogs With The Grown-Ups

Thinking About Dogs With The Grown-Ups

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How the world's keys open behavioural locks

How the world's keys open behavioural locks

Our final stop with Von Uexküll's 1934 paper

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Nov 14, 2024
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It’s been a journey, hasn’t it, since we started with the Brelands’ and their raccoon-who-wouldn’t. You know, the covetous one who clutched his coin and wouldn’t let go, rubbing it over and dipping it into the money box but never dropping it?

They’d dismissed somewhat sullenly as ‘instinctive drift’, a nuisance variable that animal trainers should be aw…

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