Over the weekend and also on Monday, I have been hard at work generalizing Tinkerbell to the wooden box in the animal room.  As part of our upcoming experiment, I need Tinkerbell to ring the bell in this new environment.  On Saturday and Sunday, I basically let Tink habituate to the box.  Today I started conditioning her to ring the bell in the same corner that she rang the bell in the aquarium.  I followed the same procedure of clicking when she rang the bell, followed by her food reinforcement.   I also fed Tink in the same corner as I fed her in the aquarium.  Conditioning went well today.  The animal room is much noisier then the individual rooms down in lab 104.  Tink was very interested in all the new smells in the wooden box and all the surrounding noise.  But, all in all, for our first attempt, training went smoothly.  I’m going to keep working with Tink in the wooden box as prep work for what Tink will be doing in our experiment. 
(Food weight – 21.0 grams - Body weight – 225 grams)