Continuing training - Specific modules for primates and large animals

Refining primate handling through cooperative training

This session covers cooperating with captive animals by emphasizing choice and agency for better welfare. It includes practical positive reinforcement tools like clicker training for procedures (restraint, sampling, treatments), plus video demos and interactive exercises linking theory to practice.

Duration and dates

  • Friday, February 27, 2026, from 9:00 AM to 12:30 PM

Registration open until February 26, 2026.

Target audience

  • Researchers
  • Researchers assitants
  • Vetenarians
  • Animal facility managers
  • Zootechnians
  • and more generally, anyone working with captive primates

Trainer

The course will be taught by Aurore SERDA, PhD student in Ethology and Primatology at the Cognitive and Adaptive Neuroscience Laboratory (UMR 7364), University of Strasbourg.

Accessibility Disability

Tell us about your needs so we can best tailor your training to your requirements.

Prerequisites

None

Content of the intervention

  • Why and how to cooperate with captive animals
  • The importance of choice and agency, and how to give animals meaningful options and control.
  • Practical tools and methods such as clicker training and other positive reinforcement strategies (applications in restraint, sampling, administration procedures…).
  • Applied examples: video demonstrations and interactive exercises with participants to connect theory and practice.

Teaching resources

  • Interactive video conference sessions
  • Digital learning materials sent to participants
  • Certificate of completion

Assessment method

Knowledge assessment in the form of multiple choice questions

 

Access time

Response within 48 hours, depending on the schedule

Duration and dates

  • 3.5 hours of training.
  • 1 to 2 sessions per year, open to multiple companies, on the dates and at the locations indicated in the Uniivo Academy schedule.
  • In-house training can be arranged at your premises upon request.
  • Video conferencing is also available.

Target audience

  • Researchers
  • Researchers assitants
  • Vetenarians
  • Animal facility managers
  • Zootechnians
  • and more generally, anyone working with captive primates

Trainer

One of the leading experts on the subject, a regular contributor to Uniivo Academy

Accessibility Disability

Tell us about your needs so we can best tailor your training to your requirements.

Prerequisites

None

Content of the intervention

  • Why and how to cooperate with captive animals
  • The importance of choice and agency, and how to give animals meaningful options and control.
  • Practical tools and methods such as clicker training and other positive reinforcement strategies (applications in restraint, sampling, administration procedures…).
  • Applied examples: video demonstrations and interactive exercises with participants to connect theory and practice.

Teaching resources

  • Interactive video conference sessions
  • Digital learning materials sent to participants
  • Certificate of completion

Assessment method

Knowledge assessment in the form of multiple choice questions

 

Access time

Response within 48 hours, depending on the schedule

Continuing training Specific modules for primates and large animals

Refining primate handling through cooperative training

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Phone

06 33 81 00 11

Email address

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    Training date

    27/02/2026 On videoIn-house, upon request

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