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How to think like a donkey

How to think like a donkey

With Ben Hart, Senior Lead in Behaviour and Human Behaviour Change

Introduction

Introduction

The Donkey Sanctuary has an ambition to help improve the lives of donkeys and mules around the world, by providing relevant up-to-date resources on donkey care, welfare, behaviour, nutrition and veterinary topics. These recordings of live webinars are created to help owners, handlers, carers and the employees of organisations across the world find the information they need to improve the lives of their donkeys.

This webinar recording explores how donkeys senses affect their behaviour and how the way their mind works affects our training. Find out more about how donkeys hear, see, smell and think.

Webinar details

Understanding how donkeys perceive their world is the key to understanding their behaviour. If we want to provide the best environments for our donkeys and handle them sympathetically, we need to be able to think with the donkey’s brain not our own.

Having a better understanding of the way your donkeys perceive their world will help you to become sympathetic to the challenges they face and allow you to be a better trainer by planning your training more successfully and effectively.

Does your donkey or mule do strange things that don’t seem to make sense? This webinar will answer questions like:

How good is my donkey’s memory? Can they see in colour and what difference does it make anyway? Why is their sense of smell so important in training?

Never be in the dark again about how well your donkey can see at night and learn how all this understanding will let you think with the donkey’s mind.

Running time: 75 MINUTES

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More information

Are you looking for advice on donkey behaviour? Contact our behaviour team.

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