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Conclusions- • Both elephants and keepers progressing well and will continue to reinforce these behaviours over the next week • Protocol for training regime were typed up (under Alan’s instruction) to ensure gate procedure and movement of elephants is clear to each keeper, and to allow risk assessments to be drawn up • Lord Derby and guests were present for one of the sessions. We informed them about the training process, our aims and how training will help improve elephant health and welfare in the future • Final thanks and farewell to Alan • Group discussion about how successful the week has been, and how together as a team we can move forward • Records will be kept of progress for each elephant on ‘Weekly Training Log Sheets’- see appendix 2, and appendix 3 for explanation of behaviour codes Figure 12: Chunky and Andy prepared for training sessions
Protected Contact Training with Alan Roocroft 31 st October- 3 rd November 2009 Figure 13: The Elephant Team- Andy, Chunky, Scotty and <strong>Rachel</strong> • During the time between Alan’s two visits Chunky and Andy continued the training sessions • On Alan’s return 3 training sessions were performed per elephant per day • The training sessions were split between all four elephant keepers to pass on the skills and practice ready for when Alan left DAY 7- Saturday 31 st October NISSIM • During the time elapsed since Alan’s last visit, Nissim developed a mild tolerance of the foot target touching his FLF, but he does tend to attack/grab this target and also to crush the head target • Alan suggested that one trainer, Chunky, hold the head target, use commands and give reward, while a second trainer, Alan introduced the foot target both through the bars and through the foot port. Gradually Nissim became less alarmed by the foot target and did not try to grab it so frequently. By the final session, Nissim was lifting his FLF when requested and was beginning to show a glimpse of understanding of what was being asked of him
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