Hands-on handling, positive and negative experience question

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I think the ''manning'' method, is what I was referring to as hands-on? - a bit more reading suggests its less about hands on, and just being in the same environment for long periods of time - but with falconry they also practice sleep deprivation, which seems to me excessive stress, but obviously it does work for Falcons - the website I was reading however, did note that some Falcons would develop problematic phobias of random things, a little concerning for dealing with one animal, perhaps not for several where the odds are reduced, a major concern for a pet tho!

cooling method I assume is reducing their available temperatures to make them more sluggish and less aggressive (interestingly thats also a technique I also use when attempting to combine unrelated queens into a single ant colony, cool them to <8C, leave them for 48hrs, and after that they behave as if they are related - if you put a new queen into a colony without this process, it'll almost certainly be killed)

Is there any info on the cooling method? I'm wondering if it would be most appropriately tested during ''cool season'', which my Sav is just gearing up for with reduction in basking times and ambient temps (based on the method used in the biawk artical, dont remember which issue)