Personality traits:
were described as both friendly and easy to train
Breed-defining traits:
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How comfortable a dog is around people, especially if unfamiliar to them.
Human Sociability
How easily stimulated a dog is in multiple situations, both in activity level and impulse control.
Arousal Level
How much a dog displays motor patterns (e.g. grab-bite, chase), particularly towards toys.
Toy-directed
How readily a dog responds to human direction, especially in the context of training.
Biddability
How easily a dog is provoked by a frightening, uncomfortable, or annoying stimulus.
Agonistic Threshold
How comfortable a dog is around other dogs.
Dog Sociability
How interactive a dog is with its familiar, daily environment.
Environmental Engagement
How readily a dog solicits human contact and closeness.
Proximity Seeking
How common is a dog like this among...
Mixed breed dogs
Breed dogs
About
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The Project: Darwin’s Ark
•The Team: A collaboration between Karlsson and Colubri Labs
• The data: derived from behaviour surveys on 18,371 dogs, storaged on Dryad at DOI
• The Science paper: Morrill et al. 2022
•The source code: GitHub repository
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