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Originally Posted by BWSmith
Exactly. It is not really training them, it is just interpreting natural behavior as something more than it is. It is a mantids instinct to hop up to a higher perch. You can probably get the same reaction from a wild mantid fresh out of the yard. That is why every time a kid catches a praying mantis, it ends up on their head.
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Actually for a long time they would fly every where but to us. So we started at closer distances and gradually built trust and their attention. Getting them to fly to us instead of all over the room was much more difficult than you would think.
BW much of conditioning is taking a natural response and just improving on it. Much like teaching horses to run collected or grey hounds to race. They have it in them but repetition through conditioning gets them to do it repeatedly with out getting sidetracked.
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