Day seminar with Dr. Udo Ganslosser

In order to understand problems with inappropriate and sometimes difficult to control behavior from this functional group, we must not only look at dogs versus rabbits.

A lot of what is considered bullying is also hunting pseudo rabbits, and undesirable herding behavior towards cyclists, children on skateboards or family members when leaving is misinterpreted as aggression.

Traditional ethological concepts such as stimulus summation, over-optimal dummies etc can explain to us why many dangerous dogs are not aggressive, why there is no hunting instinct, and with recent insights from behavioral ecology and neurobiology we understand why hunting is not aggression and why symbolic hunting with the dog is not as Bond strengthening can go through.

Speaker:
Dr. Udo Ganslosser,  Priv.Doz. for Zoology at the Zool Institute and Museum of the Univ. Greifswald and lecturer at the Phylogenetic Museum and at the Institute for Special Zoology at the University of Jena, regularly conducts courses in behavioral and zoological biology and gives guest lectures at other institutes, takes on consulting activities for zoos, animal parks and animal shelters, advanced training events and publication supervision. dr Ganslosser is known for his extremely competent and entertaining lectures.