The Shedd's Trainer for a Day program is a hands-on answer to those who wonder what it's like to be a trainer. It starts with a lot of fish scrubbing.
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In no time we had watched a 10-minute video that gave us the basics of marine-mammal training. Not unlike child rearing, training is based on positive reinforcement. Unlike child rearing, however, a whistle and rewards of dead fish are involved.