animal trainers
Wildlife behavior teachers
Animal trainers are people who teach animals to perform specific behaviors, whether for entertainment, work, or companionship.
They work with everything from circus elephants to police dogs to household pets.
The job requires understanding animal psychology and behavior, using techniques ranging from reward-based conditioning to more traditional methods: The animal trainers spent months preparing the dolphins for the show.
- dolphinsSmart aquatic mammals
- Sea WorldAquatic theme park
- trained sealsTaught aquatic show animals
- horsesLarge domesticated hoofed mammals
- show dogsCanines bred for competitions
dogs · obedience · clicker training · operant conditioning · crate training · therapy · primates · lion tamers · agility · birds · elephants · big cats · showmanship · reward systems · cats · working animals · seals · whips
- animal peoplecat owners, breeders, adopters, dog breeders, cat breeders
- circuscircus, big top, clown, clowns, ringmaster
- carnivalparade, costume, float, ferris wheel, roller coaster
- animal fablesfable, fables, beast fables, beast fable, Aesop
- circus acrobaticsacrobats, trapeze, trapeze artists, flying trapeze, tightrope
- entertainment workersentertainers, performers, stagehands, film crew, dancers
animal trainerspoachers
Illicit wildlife takers
hunters · exterminators · animal control officers · zookeepers · trappers