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Using principles of behaviourism psychology to facilitate interaction with wild Eastern Striped Skinks. The term 'habituation' is used to refer to the extinction of a fear response. Initially, the skinks ran away from me and from the hand signal demonstrated in the video. They approached in response to the hand signal only after conditioning had occurred.

Factors that appear to decrease the time it takes for habituation to occur include:
Conditioning two skinks simultaneously. Competition for food seems to drive habituation in each individual.
Observational learning. I noticed that an unconditioned skink that observed a conditioned skink responding to the hand signal learned much faster than the rest.

Music used is "Happy Beat" from Microsoft Video Editor.