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. 2024 Jul 22;14(14):2130. doi: 10.3390/ani14142130

Table 1.

Ethogram for coding the stress behaviors during baseline and prosocial tasks.

Category Posture
Panting Mouth open and tongue out rhythmic heavy breathing (in seconds)
Sniffing Floor Head down to floor while breathing in through the nose (in seconds)
Whining High-pitched repetitive vocalization
Barking Low-pitched and short duration vocalization
Growling Low-pitched and rumbling vocalization
Urogenital checkouts Smelling urogenital areas
Shake offs Motions of rotation in the body and/or head
Yawning Opens mouth and inhales
Scratching Using the paw to make repeated contact to the body or face
Tongue flicks Tongue extends out of mouth and flicks nose