Pete Davey started his marine mammal training career at Mystic Aquarium in Mystic, Connecticut. While there, he learned to train animals by working with California sealions, harbor seals, Northern fur seals, gray seals, and even an elephant seal.
In 1990, Pete joined the Shedd Aquarium, a new oceanarium in Chicago, IL, as part of the Marine Mammal Department. In almost nine years with Shedd, he worked with beluga whales, Pacific white-sided dolphins, and more seals, sea otters and penguins. He became the lead for beluga whales and a senior trainer.
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In 1999 he went to Ocean Journey, a new aquarium in Denver, to build its training programs. As Curator of Training and Husbandry, he designed and directed training programs using whale and dolphin training techniques with tigers, sea otters and river otters (thus "Whales with Fur" was born). At the same time he hired, developed and taught trainers to be part of that program.
In 2003 Pete joined the world's first oceanarium, Marineland of Florida and as Director of Training he rebuilt the training department, designed new programs, and helped design the new Dolphin Conservation Center at Marineland. He retired from the active field in 2005 to move to Hershey, Pennslyvania with his family, including his four children, dogs, cats, pigeons, a snake, gecko, turtle, and fish...
Pete is the executive director of the Harrisburg Area Riverboat Society, which owns and operates the "Pride of the Susquehanna", an authentic paddlewheel riverboat on the Susquehanna River. Pete continues to work with trainers through the Animal Behavior Institute (www.animaledu.com).
Pete Davey started his marine mammal training career at Mystic Aquarium in Mystic, Connecticut. While there, he learned to train animals by working with California sealions, harbor seals, Northern fur seals, gray seals, and even an elephant seal.
