May 17, 2007

Marian Breland Bailey, shown here with her second husband, Bob Bailey, in 1998, was a leader in animal conditioning long before she and her first husband, Keller Breland, developed the famous IQ Zoo in Hot Springs (Garland County). During the 1930s and 1940s, she worked as a research assistant for behavioral psychologist B. F. Skinner, assisting in the training of bomb-guiding pigeons during World War II. After the war, she and Breland formed the nation’s first science-based animal training company, Animal Behavior Enterprises.