Dog training videos

I will start posting here whatever videos I found interesting, useful, well taught and executed: "Leave it" command

Lithuania Lecture - Introduction to Animal Assisted Therapy and Ethology

I have recently been invited to Vilnius, Lithuania to talk about AAT and related topics. The entire event was hosted by the Austrian Embassy in Vilnius. The presentation was great, we had a great audience who asked a lot of interesting questions. What I really enjoyed about this is that this event brought together animal lovers from all over Lithuania, dog owners, trainers, breeders and people just interested in AAT. I got a lot of positive feedback and one of the reasons why I'm writing this is that I found that people are actually reading this blog.:D So, for those of you who attended this lecture, I just wanted to say thank you ! Also a big thanks goes to Vier Pfoten for making this possible and Ms. Gudrun Koller and the Austrian Embassy for their involvement and hospitality. It was a great experience that I hope to repeat soon ! Thank you ! Victor

The Effects of Animal Assisted Therapy on Communication and Social Skills: A Meta-Analysis

This meta-analysis was published in the Transylvanian Journal of Psychology as part of my doctoral research, and it's just been indexed by Ebsco :)

My Dropbox Anthrozoology Library

This is my Dropbox Anthrozoology Library. I thought I'd share all these materials with you. You will find great books and research articles. The folder is constantly updated, so check back :)

School of Advanced Studies: Human-Animal Interaction 2012

Between the 20th and 25th of November in Cluj Napoca, Romania took place a series of lectures and events organized under the name of School of Advanced Studies: Human Animal Interaction. Among the lectures on Behavioral Enrichment, Animal Training, Animal Keeping and numerous others by distinguished speakers, the event also marked the official launch of the Human Animal Interaction Research Institute (ICIOA). You can visit the institute's site here.

Also, you can visit my Youtube channel for HD recordings of some of the lectures.

Anti - ACTA protest Bucharest

Around 300 people gathered today in Bucharest to protest against ACTA.There were more people than I expected and less people than I hoped.
Even though the protest for some reason was not given the proper media attention, the protesters endured -10 degrees cold in order to urge the authorities to ban ACTA in Romania. It was a peaceful protest done by a very enthusiastic crowd, mostly young educated people.
Hats off to them !

                                                                                                                                                                    

To quote one of the slogans we shouted there today:
" ROMANIA, WAKE UP !!!"

Useful Free Software for Ethology, Behavior Analysis and Conservation

This is just a list of software that I played with or just found interesting. I will come back with more detailed descriptions.


Agna - Social Network Analysis
SocNetV - Social Network Analysis
jWatcher - Behavioral Analysis
CowLog - Behavioral Analysis (not as complex as JWatcher)
EthoLog - Behavioral Analysis
Distance - Distance sampling surveys of wildlife populations
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2847204/
Vortex - Population Viability Analysis
ArcGIS - online mapping application
Maxent - species habitat modeling
Garp - predict and analyze wild species distributions
JAABA - The Janelia Automatic Animal Behavior Annotator (JAABA) is a machine learning-based system that enables researchers to automatically compute interpretable, quantitative statistics describing video of behaving animals.