University of Veterinary Medicine Vienna Dataset for the test phase of "Neophilia in wolves and dogs" Dataset for the test phase of the preprint: Dániel Rivas-Blanco, Lou Gonnet-dit-Revel, Friederike Range, Sabine Tebbich, Sarah Marshall-Pescini. Neophilia in wolves and dogs. bioRxiv 2025.04.24.650376 doi.org/10.1101/2025.04.24.650376 (Note: This article is a preprint and has not been certified by peer review - verified on: 2025-11-21) Each row of the dataset represents a trial. The columns, from left to right, are as follows: session_id (ID of the session), date (date of the session in dd/mm/yyyy format), subject (name of the subject), session (number of test session for a given subject), species ("Wolf" or "Dog"), population ("pack" or "pet"; "pet" only applies to dogs), old_item (identity of the familiar item), new_item (identity of the new item), pair (code for the familiar-new item pair the item used for exposure belongs to), experimenter (experimenter that led the session), enclosure (enclosure in which the animal was tested), sex ("m" or "f"), age_days (number of days that passed between the birth of the animal and the session, first_approach (item that was first approached —within 2 body lengths), first_touched (item that was touched first), item_closer (identity of the item that was closer to the entrance to the enclosure from which the animals were shifted in), latency_new (time in seconds the animal needed to approach the new object), int-dur_old (time in seconds the animal interacted with the familiar object), int-dur_new (time in seconds the animal interacted with the new object), distance_old (distance in meters between the entrance of the enclosure and the familiar item), distance_new (distance in meters between the entrance of the enclosure and the new item), and notes. en dataset Dataset Dataset Dati Dataset Data dataset Daten Dataset wolves dogs neophilia neophobia Dániel Rivas-Blanco