Village dogs match pet dogs in reading human facial expressions

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Zoological Science

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Introduction

Materials & Methods

Ethical statement

Subjects and study area

Village dogs (Vd)

Pet dogs (Pd)

Test procedure

Village dogs (Vd)

Pet dogs (Pd)

Statistical analyses

Proximity, Tail wagging and Looking at experimenter models (predictions P1, P3, P5)

Eating available food model (prediction P2)

Gaze aversion model (prediction P4)

Results

Proximity (P1)

Eating available food (P2)

Tail wagging (P3)

Gaze aversion (P4)

Looking at experimenter (P5)

Discussion

Conclusions

Supplemental Information

Supplementary material

Additional information on statistics

DOI: 10.7717/peerj.15601/supp-1

Additional Information and Declarations

Competing Interests

The authors declare there are no competing interests.

Author Contributions

Martina Lazzaroni conceived and designed the experiments, performed the experiments, analyzed the data, prepared figures and/or tables, authored or reviewed drafts of the article, and approved the final draft.

Joana Schär performed the experiments, analyzed the data, prepared figures and/or tables, authored or reviewed drafts of the article, and approved the final draft.

Elizabeth Baxter performed the experiments, authored or reviewed drafts of the article, and approved the final draft.

Juliette Gratalon performed the experiments, authored or reviewed drafts of the article, and approved the final draft.

Friederike Range conceived and designed the experiments, authored or reviewed drafts of the article, and approved the final draft.

Sarah Marshall-Pescini conceived and designed the experiments, authored or reviewed drafts of the article, and approved the final draft.

Rachel Dale conceived and designed the experiments, performed the experiments, authored or reviewed drafts of the article, and approved the final draft.

Animal Ethics

The following information was supplied relating to ethical approvals (i.e., approving body and any reference numbers):

Ethik und Tierschutzkommission of the University of Veterinary Medicine (Protocol number: ETK-08/09/2018 and ETK-16/01/2019).

Field Study Permissions

The following information was supplied relating to field study approvals (i.e., approving body and any reference numbers):

The authorization to test the village dogs was provided by the municipality of Taghazout (Morocco).

Data Availability

The following information was supplied regarding data availability:

The output of the behavioral coding from videos (raw data), and additional information regarding statistics, are available in the Supplementary Files.

The example video is available at figshare: Lazzaroni, Martina (2023). Video1.avi. figshare. Media. https://figshare.com/articles/media/Video1_avi/21747449.

Funding

This work was supported by the DOC fellowship of the Austrian Academy of Sciences and the Austrian Science Fund (FWF) project P34675-G. The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript.

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