https://phaidra.vetmeduni.ac.at/o:4577 Dataset for the test phase of "Neophilia in wolves and dogs" Rivas-Blanco, Dániel Dániel Rivas-Blanco 0000-0002-3759-7192 other FWF Austrian Science Fund Proximate mechanisms underlying problem solving abilities HASH(0x6258f7a074c8) eng 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 bioRxiv 2025.04.24.650376 doi.org/10.1101/2025.04.24.650376 (Note: This article is a preprint and has not been certified by peer review - verified on: 2025-11-21) Each row of the dataset represents a trial.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. wolves dogs neophilia neophobia http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ https://phaidra.vetmeduni.ac.at/api/object/o:4577/download 10.34876/4er6-tj69 https://phaidra.vetmeduni.ac.at/o:606 text/csv 11.22 kB 2025