Marine Mammal Trainers

Jenny Montague, Marine Mammal Trainer at New England Aquarium in Boston, Massachusetts, and her colleagues share tales of daily life working with harbor seals and fur seals.

Showing posts with label Husbandry behavior. Show all posts

Showing posts with label Husbandry behavior. Show all posts

5/5/09

#110: What's the point of training a fish?

Someone asked this question after watching one of Blondie's videos and I thought that this video may help explain. As with our seals, t...

9/16/08

#50: Chainsaw Ultrasound Picture

Here is the end result of months of training Chainsaw to hold in position to have an ultrasound performed. An earlier post showed Dr. Char...

9/4/08

#43: Chainsaw's Ultrasound

In this video you will see Chainsaw setting up nicely for our veterinary staff to take an ultrasound of her body. When she is on her back, ...

7/3/08

#25: Trip to the Dentist

Everyone knows that going to the dentist on a regular basis is important for taking care of your teeth. But did you know that this is also t...

6/23/08

#20: Mobile Seal

One of the most important aspects of our job as trainers is the training of husbandry behaviors. Husbandry behaviors are the behaviors that ...

#19: Eye Drops

To make sure our seals are as healthy and comfortable as possible we sometimes need to administer different medications to them. Harbor seal...

6/2/08

#12: Nail Clipping

Now why would we clip a harbor seal's nails? It's not as if they have spas out in the ocean right? Seals naturally wear down their n...

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