[bookshare-discuss] Book Submitted: Lads Before the Wind
- From: "Shelley L. Rhodes" <guidinggolden@xxxxxxxxx>
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- Date: Mon, 17 Feb 2014 22:10:16 -0500
Book two submitted for someone's proofing pleasure.
ISBN:
0-06-013442-9
Title:
Lads Before The Wind: Adventures In Porpoise Training
Author(s):
Karen Pryor, Konrad Lorenz (Introduction by)
Publisher:
HarperCollins Publishers
Copyright Date:
1975
Copyrighted By:
Karen Pryor.
Brief Synopsis:
Experiences and lessons learned in classical and operant conditioning in animal
training from one of the world's most well--known animal trainers.
Long Synopsis:
In this book the reader learns almost as much about human behavior as about
porpoise behavior. Starting from scratch, with a report on operant conditioning
in one hand and a bucket of fish in the other, Karen Pryor learned to train
porpoises, learned to train trainers, and gradually came to be recognized as an
international authority on whale and porpoise behavior and training. Lads
Before the Wind takes its title from Herman Melville ("They are the lads that
always live before the wind. They are accounted a lucky omen"). Karen Pryor
draws on her eight years as head trainer at Hawaii's Sea Life Park and Oceanic
Institute. Working with entirely new species of whales and porpoises (at least
new for training purposes), she and her team pioneered in logical and
behavioral research. Lads Before the Wind is about how Mrs. Pryor learned
training, biology, temperaments and the life styles of porpoises. All the sad,
fine, and funny things that happened are related in a fascinating combination
of narrative writing, entries from her journals, quotations from letters and
even tapes. She covers many biological and philosophical problems such as
creativity, conservation, the nature of intelligence, and the potential of
porpoises. Among other things, the book constitutes a painless >,jide to the
basic tenets of behavior modification and of ethology. It reveals visitors
through their adventures with porpoises: brilliant scientists like Konrad
Lorenz, B.E Skinner, John Lilly, Gregory Bateson, plus other notables like
Clare Boothe Luce and Art Linkletter. This is deceptively light
reading-anecdotal, relaxed, amusing. Nevertheless it is full of sound and
illuminating scientific insight. karen pryor is a writer, lecturer, and
naturalist who spent eight years training porpoises for Hawaii's Sea Life Park
and Oceanic Institute. She is the author of numerous scientific papers on
psychology, animal and bird behavior, and whales and porpoises, and has also
written a popular book on motherhood, Nursing Your Baby. She grew up in New
England and Florida, and has made her home in Hawaii since 1955. She is the
mother of three teen-aged children. She shared with her father, the late Philip
Wylie, a life-long interest in the sea and its creatures. Presently the drama
critic for the Honolulu Advertiser, and a member of the Hawaii Opera theater
chorus, she is also associated with the Fawcett/McDermott Agency.
Comments:
Has been read through. There are several hawaiian names for the various animals
in the book the spell checker will not recognize them. photo captions have been
properly labeled. If you have questions please contact me at:
juddysbuddy@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Adult content:
No
Language:
English US
Book Quality:
EXCELLENT
Categories:
Nonfiction, Science, Animals, Biographies and Memoirs
B4E Significant:
No
SFWA Challenged:
No
Shelley L. Rhodes, M.A. CVRT
and Ludden black Labrador Guide Dog.
The cure for anything is salt water -- sweat, tears, or the sea. -Isak Dinesen
(pen name of Karen Blixen), author (1885-1962)
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