Validation of a Behavior Test for Predicting Puppies’ Suitability as Detection Dogs

Lazarowski, Lucia; Rogers, Bart; Krichbaum, Sarah; Haney, Pamela; Smith, Jordan G.; Waggoner, Paul

doi:10.3390/ani11040993

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“…Participants highlighted the importance of including all known factors in an EDC's initial training and ensuring consistent access to continued exposure after initial certification. Selecting an innately confident future EDC is key as acclimation may mask behaviors that could emerge and degrade performance at inopportune times [9,35]. Some of the factors (e.g., elevated spaces and noxious stimuli from machinery) involve innate mammalian responses that may be difficult to fully overcome [36,37].…”

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Expert Perspectives on the Performance of Explosive Detection Canines: Performance Degrading Factors

Farr

Otto

Szymczak

2021

Animals

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The explosive detection canine (EDC) team is currently the best available mobile sensor capability in the fight against explosive threats. While the EDC can perform at a high level, the EDC team faces numerous factors during the search process that may degrade performance. Understanding these factors is key to effective selection, training, assessment, deployment, and operationalizable research. A systematic description of these factors is absent from the literature. This qualitative study leveraged the perspectives of expert EDC handlers, trainers, and leaders (n = 17) to determine the factors that degrade EDC performance. The participants revealed factors specific to utilization, the EDC team, and the physical, climate, operational, and explosive odor environments. Key results were the reality of performance degradation, the impact of the handler, and the importance of preparation. This study’s results can help improve EDC selection, training, assessment, and deployment and further research into sustaining EDC performance.

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Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Expert Perspectives on the Performance of Explosive Detection Canines: Performance Degrading Factors

Farr

Otto

Szymczak

2021

Animals

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“…In turn, applied research has started to give insight into typical dog development, such as the normal range and developmental trajectory of behavioral traits, using large-scale owner questionnaires (e.g., Serpell & Hsu, 2001) and behavioral evaluations (e.g., Bray, Gruen, et al, 2021;Serpell et al, 2016;Svartberg, 2005). Hall et al, 2021) as well as the cognitive, behavioral, environmental, and genetic factors that contribute to working dog outcomes (e.g., Bray, Otto, et al, 2021;Lazarowski et al, 2021).…”

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confidence: 99%

ManyDogs Project: A Big Team Science Approach to Investigating Canine Behavior and Cognition

ManyDogs¹,

Alberghina²,

Bray³

et al. 2022

Preprint

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Although dogs have a special place in human history as the first domesticated species and play important roles in many cultures around the world, their role in scientific studies has been relatively recent. With a few notable exceptions (e.g., Darwin, Pavlov, Scott & Fuller), domestic dogs were not commonly the subject of rigorous scientific investigation of behavior until the late 1990s. While the number of canine science studies has increased dramatically over the last 20 years, most research groups are limited in the inferences they can draw due to the relatively small sample sizes used along with the exceptional diversity observed in dogs (e.g., breed, geographic location, experience). To this end, we introduce the ManyDogs Project, an international consortium of researchers interested in taking a big team science approach to understanding canine behavioral science. We begin by discussing why studying dogs provides valuable insights into behavior and cognition, evolutionary processes, human health, and applications for animal welfare. We then highlight other big team science projects that have previously been conducted in canine science and emphasize the benefits of our approach. Finally, we introduce the ManyDogs Project and our mission: 1) replicating important findings, 2) investigating moderators that need a large sample size such as breed differences, 3) reaching methodological consensus, 4) investigating cross-cultural differences, and finally 5) setting a standard for replication studies in general. In doing so, we hope to address previous limitations in individual lab studies and previous big team science frameworks to deepen our understanding of canine behavior and cognition.

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“…The Behavior CheckList was originally designed for assistance and guide dogs, but it may be generalizable to other types of working dogs, such as detection dogs, when augmented with additional job-specific phenotypes (e.g., hunt drive, indication, bite) ( 47 ).…”

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Advancing Genetic Selection and Behavioral Genomics of Working Dogs Through Collaborative Science

Chen

Zimmermann²,

Hekman

et al. 2021

Front. Vet. Sci.

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The ancient partnership between people and dogs is struggling to meet modern day needs, with demand exceeding our capacity to safely breed high-performing and healthy dogs. New statistical genetic approaches and genomic technology have the potential to revolutionize dog breeding, by transitioning from problematic phenotypic selection to methods that can preserve genetic diversity while increasing the proportion of successful dogs. To fully utilize this technology will require ultra large datasets, with hundreds of thousands of dogs. Today, dog breeders struggle to apply even the tools available now, stymied by the need for sophisticated data storage infrastructure and expertise in statistical genetics. Here, we review recent advances in animal breeding, and how a new approach to dog breeding would address the needs of working dog breeders today while also providing them with a path to realizing the next generation of technology. We provide a step-by-step guide for dog breeders to start implementing estimated breeding value selection in their programs now, and we describe how genotyping and DNA sequencing data, as it becomes more widely available, can be integrated into this approach. Finally, we call for data sharing among dog breeding programs as a path to achieving a future that can benefit all dogs, and their human partners too.

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Validation of a Behavior Test for Predicting Puppies’ Suitability as Detection Dogs

Cited by 26 publications

References 62 publications

Expert Perspectives on the Performance of Explosive Detection Canines: Performance Degrading Factors

Expert Perspectives on the Performance of Explosive Detection Canines: Performance Degrading Factors

ManyDogs Project: A Big Team Science Approach to Investigating Canine Behavior and Cognition

Advancing Genetic Selection and Behavioral Genomics of Working Dogs Through Collaborative Science

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