The Pigeon is Successful!

For my class with the pigeon, we have to put them in little boxes like this called a "Skinner Box" and kind of train them to do certain things our professor tells us to do. Well our lab that we've been working on for a week is trying to get the pigeon to peck a disk, such as this pigeon is doing in the picture. Well, 5 hours later we finally got it to do what we needed it to do! We were basically so excited when it finally pecked the disc. There were some people that it only took them 28 minutes from the beginning to the end of the lab, yeah it took us 5 hours because we were all doing something different. It ended up that we had to go into another room and watch the bird from a two way mirror so he would actually do stuff. It was pretty exciting to know that we actually taught the bird to peck a disk. We were so happy!