WildView™

An Eye on Wildlife

Wildlife Conservation Society Menu
Wild Kiss

February 14, 2016

Wild Kiss

- as seen by -

Julie Larsen Julie Larsen

While this might look like harbor seals “kissing”, it is actually a behavior learned through positive reinforcement training. This training is used with many animals that live at the Wildlife Conservation Society’s New York Aquarium.

“We train in small steps to approximate the kiss behavior,” says NYA wild animal keeper Kayla Bergman. “Now, when the seals are next to each other during our training sessions, they often choose to repeat what they have learned and “kiss” on their own.”

See how Kayla and the NYA keepers worked with our Pacific walrus for another interesting behavior in Super Soaker.

Nikon D4


Brooklyn, USA Map It

subscribe

Leave a Comment

2 comments

Leave a Reply

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *

tera nethu
June 12, 2020 at 5:55 pm

SO ADORABLE–HUMANS LEAVE THE WILD TO THE WILD–DO NOT INTERFERE –UNLESS YOU ARE HELPING–STOP HUNTING/KILLING WILD ANIMALS FOR GOD’S SAKE STOP!!!!.

Carolee Desnoyers
May 11, 2022 at 9:51 am

It’s a No from Me