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Dogs trained to detect explosives may perform worse in extreme temperature and humidity, taking longer to identify substances and with lower sensitivity

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Environmental effects on explosive detection threshold of domestic dogs

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Canine "Zulu" doing a detection task on an olfactometer, holding his nose in an odor port.

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Credit: Nathaniel J. Hall, CC-BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)

Dogs trained to detect explosives may perform worse in extreme temperature and humidity, taking longer to identify substances and with lower sensitivity

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Article URL:  https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0306817

Article Title: Environmental effects on explosive detection threshold of domestic dogs

Author Countries: USA

Funding: This research was made possible through funding provided by the DoD Army Research Office under Contract No. W911NF2120124. https://www.arl.army.mil/who-we-are/aro/. SAK’s work was supported by the National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship Program (DGE 2140745). https://www.nsfgrfp.org/. This funder played no role in the study design, data collection, analysis, preparation or decision to publish this manuscript.


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