Cortisol and behavioral responses of working dogs to environmental challenges

This paper’s primary objective is to analyse the physiological (cortisol) and behavioral responses of military working dogs (MWD). Dogs (N = 27) were submitted twice to environmental challenges (challenge 1 and 2, 20 days in-between) composed of social (training), visual (mobile toy car) and auditory (air blast) stimuli. Cortisol levels decreased back to the baseline […]