Part A. Demystifying Zoo Animal Training. 1. Learning Theory -- 2. The Cognitive Abilities of Wild Animals -- 3. The Ultimate Benefits of Learning -- 4. Choosing the Right Method: Reinforcement vs Punishment -- Box A1. Animal Vision -- Box A2. Do You Hear What I Hear? Hearing and Sound in Animals -- Box A3. Making Sense of Scents : Olfactory Perception in Animals -- Part B. Types of Learning That Can Be Achieved in a Zoo Environment. 5. What Is There to Learn in a Zoo Setting? -- 6. Environmental Enrichment : The Creation of Opportunities for Informal Learning -- 7. The Art of 'Active' Training -- 8. Integrating Training into Animal Husbandry -- 9. Us and Them : Human-Animal Interactions as Learning Events -- Box B1. Elephant Training in Zoos -- Box B2. Human-Elephant Interactions in Semi-captive Asian Elephants of Myanmar -- Box B3. Elephant Cognition : An Overview -- Box B4. Marine Mammal Training -- Box B5. Cognitive Abilities of Marine Mammals -- Box B6. The Application of Positive Reinforcement Training to Enhance Welfare of Primates in Zoological Collections -- Box B7. Species-specific Considerations : Primate Learning -- Box B8. Training Reptiles in Zoos : A Professional Perspective -- Box B9. The Learning Repertoire of Reptiles -- Box B10. Training Birds from a Zoo Professional's Perspective -- Box B11. Learning and Cognition in Birds -- Box B12. Species-specific Considerations when Planning and Implementing Training with Aquatics -- Box B13. The Cognitive Abilities of Fish -- Part C. More Than A to B : How Zoo Animal Training Programmes Can Impact Zoo Operations and Missions. 10. Making Training Educational for Zoo Visitors -- 11. Welfare Implications of Zoo Animal Training -- 12. Training Animals in Captivity or the Wild, so They Can Return to the Wild -- 13. Last but in Fact Most Importantly...Health and Safety -- Box C1. Training Animals in a Group Setting -- Box C2. This Generation's Challenge.