Items where Author is "Melfi, V"

HOSEY, G., WARD, S. and MELFI, V., 2023. The effect of visitors on the behaviour of zoo-housed primates: a test of four hypotheses. Applied Animal Behaviour Science: 105938. ISSN 0168-1591

MELFI, V., SKYNER, L., BIRKE, L., WARD, S.J., SHAW, W.S. and HOSEY, G., 2021. Furred and feathered friends: how attached are zookeepers to the animals in their care? Zoo Biology. ISSN 0733-3188

WARD, S., HOSEY, G. and MELFI, V., 2020. Problematic animals in the zoo: the issue of charismatic megafauna. In: F.M. ANGELICI and L. ROSSI, eds., Problematic wildlife II: new conservation and management challenges in the human-wildlife interactions. Cham: Springer, pp. 485-508. ISBN 9783030423346

WARD, S. and MELFI, V., 2020. Welfare implications of zoo animal training. In: V.A. MELFI, N.R. DOREY and S.J. WARD, eds., Zoo animal learning and training. Hoboken, N.J.: Wiley, pp. 271-288. ISBN 9781118968536

HOSEY, G., MELFI, V., FORMELLA, I., WARD, S.J., TOKARSKI, M., BRUNGER, D., BRICE, S. and HILL, S.P., 2016. Is wounding aggression in zoo-housed chimpanzees and ring-tailed lemurs related to zoo visitor numbers? Zoo Biology. ISSN 0733-3188

WARD, S.J. and MELFI, V., 2015. Keeper-animal interactions: differences between the behaviour of zoo animals affect stockmanship. PLoS ONE, 10 (10): e0140237. ISSN 1932-6203

WARD, S.J. and MELFI, V., 2013. The implications of husbandry training on zoo animal response rates. Applied Animal Behaviour Science, 147 (12), pp. 179-185. ISSN 0168-1591

WARD, S.J. and MELFI, V., 2011. The positive reinforcement effect: reduction of an animal's latency to respond to keepers' cues. In: E.A. PAJOR and J.N. MARCHANT-FORDE, eds., Proceedings of the 45th Congress of the International Society of Applied Ethology (ISAE), Indianapolis, USA, 31 July - 4 August 2011. Wageningen: Wageningen Academic Publishers, p. 82. ISBN 9789086861798