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Introducing Our New Turacos!
We took in two new turacos! Here's their introduction video where you get to meet them and see how we're already making progress with establishing trust bonds and working toward training them to become ambassadors for their species! It's...
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Little Dog Training
Jessi does a training session with her tiny dog Tinker. Tinker is a chihuahua mix that was rescued a few months ago, she has had no previous training.
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How To Save On Pet Care
Here's some tips for how to use leftover or throw away items and repurposed them into animal care supplies. Free toys and bedding, easy clean up, and lots of recycling!
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How To (Almost) Train A Beaver
Huckleberry the North American beaver gets his first official training session... and it doesn't go as planned.
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Hawk Beak Trim and New Anklets
Hara the Harris hawk gets a nail and beak trim, plus new anklets!
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Game Time With Our Picky Porcupine!
Will he lick it? Kemosabe the prehensile tailed porcupine rates random household items by sniffing, touching, or licking. Enjoy!
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Bettong Farewell
Jessi and Augusto say goodbye to the bettongs after deciding that they needed to focus on the the mission of Animal Wonders, which is rescuing displaced animals and wildlife education. While supporting captive breeding programs for...
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Baby Porcupine!
Jessi introduces you to a new animal ambassador! She's tiny and adorable! Turn up the volume to hear all the super cute noises she makes.
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Baby Cavy's 1st Training Session!
Our new baby cavy gets her official name and then has her first training session on camera.
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How to Train Your (Water) Dragon
It might seem impossible to train reptiles, but it's not! Jessi and Loki show us that with understanding and patience (and snacks!), you really can train any animal.
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How to Hold a Snake
Jessi shows you how to gently and safely hold several different kinds of small and medium sized snakes.
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How To Hold A Rabbit
Jessi and Cheeks demonstrate the proper way to hold a rabbit so no one gets hurt.
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Holding A Legless Lizard
Jessi shows how she handles and works with Leonard the Russian Legless Lizard, aka European Legless Lizard, aka glass lizard. They're not an easy species to handle, but Jessi shares some tips to keep them safely held.
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Compost and 'Be Somebody'
Jessi talks about Composting, Being Somebody, and what it means to be a boss and making the big decisions.
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Clicker Training
Jessi explains the next step in training an animal - communicating with a clicker. Behavior, marker, reinforcement. Repeat. What's the most important part of communicating with clicker training? Watch and find out.
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Ask Jessi 7!
More questions asked, more answers given! Aren't the birds scared when you wave your hands around? Can I just feed a hedgehog x instead of y? How do I get a bird to eat their veggies? What's BFA?
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Are The Animals Lefties or Righties?
Jessi experiments to see if the animals are lefties or righties. Including a: monkey, porcupine, lizard, beaver, scorpion, and parrot! Do you have an animal with a foot/hand preference? How did you figure it out?
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Another Surgery for Zeema the Toucan
Zeema the keel billed toucan has had a rough beginning to her life. She came to Animal Wonders with a broken leg, respiratory infection, and chopped off flight feathers. It's taken a lot of work to get her healthy and she's still on her...
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Aggressive Snake Hang Out
Jessi brings out Freya the Northern Pine Snake in this unscripted episode. Freya is an aggressive adult and not used to handling. Watch how Jessi works with her to avoid a bite.
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3 fun coordination skills to try and learn: juggling., balancing & spinning
Learn how to balance a soccer ball on your head, juggle 3 balls, and spin a basketball
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What is Conversion Disorder - Anxiety Out Of Control?
Conversion disorder is also called functional neurologic symptom disorder. This is where you have medically unexplained neurological symptoms. The symptoms are thought to have a psychological basis because not only are they not supported...
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Opportunitistic Behavior
Opportunistic behavior is an act or behavior of partnership motivated by the maximization of economic self-interest and occasioned loss of the other partners.
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Skin Picking and Hair Pulling Explained. What are Body Focused Repetitive Behaviors?
The two most common behaviors are hair pulling and skin picking. These two have official names in the diagnostic manual. Hair pulling is called trichotillomania and skin-picking is called excoriation disorder. Even though...
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OCD Intrusive Thoughts: 4 Examples and A Look Into Compulsions
Obsessive compulsive disorder is an anxiety disorder whereby you have either obsessions or compulsions or both. Most people have both but you can have one or the other. Some people use the term Pure O OCD to refer to only having...