monumental ineptitude. Learning to do it well is a service to all. Now that both I and my wife have read Karen Pryor’s book we’re busily training each other, some of it overt, some covert.
In the course of becoming a renowned dolphin trainer Karen Pryor learned that positive reinforcement (the only kind possible with dolphins, who can’t be reached with leashes, bridles, fists, or yells) is even more potent than prior scientific work had suggested. A daughter of novelist Philip Wylie, she is also a fine writer.
