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New developments and assessment tools for behavior
Challenges and needs
Erling Strandberg
Dept of Animal Breeding and Genetics
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Breeding goal
• Need to know what traits to improve: health, function, … • Behavior is one part of the breeding goal • But what behavior? • Different needs even within a breed: 1. Show dogs 2. Family dog for “lazy” people 3. Family dog for active people 4. Utility dog, working dog (“original use”) • Risk of subdivision of already small breeds • There is a need to describe the behavior
• For the breed • For the individual
• Conclusion from previous workshop:
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Core behavior assessment and questionnaire
Core behavior
assessment
Core behavior
questionnaire
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Assessment and questionnaire
• Complement each other • External evaluator valuable • Some dogs may not show up at the assessment (e.g.,
extremely fearful) • Could have a bad day at assessment, questionnaire
more general behavior • Dog-dog interaction is difficult to measure in assessment
but can be addressed in questionnaire • Breeders can influence the questionnaire
Core behavior
assessment Core behavior questionnaire
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Core behavior assessment and questionnaire – extension
Core behavior
assessment
Breed specific test A
Core behavior questionnaire
Disease questionnaire
Breed specific test B
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Core behavior assessement and questionnaire
Core behavior
assessment
Core behavior
questionnaire
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Heritabilities C-BARQ (all breeds)
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Core behavior
assessment
Core behavior
questionnaire
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Dog Mentality Assessment mainly developed for working dogs
Trait Heritabiltity Sociability 0.25 Curiosity/Fearlessness
0.23
Playfulness 0.26 Chase 0.18 Aggression 0.15
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Behavior and Personality Assessment in Dogs, BPH
• Description of behavior in standardized situations • Developed to work for all breeds 1. Stranger greeting 2. Playing with object 3. Food interest 4. Surprise 5. Sudden noise 6. Approach stranger 7. Surface material 8. (Gun shot)
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Heritabilities BPH traits
Trait Toller Ridgeback Greeting 0.49 0.45 Curiosity/Security 0.38 0.66 Playfulness 0.03 0.30 Aggression/threat 0.34 0.39 Social insecurity 0.34 0.27 Happy and positive 0.37 0.47 Secure and curious 0.37 0.52
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Is what we measure…
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…what we want to improve?
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Genetic correlations between Dog Mentality Assessment and everyday
behavior traits (C-BARQ, collie)
Trait Genetic correlation Sociability 0.87 Fear 0.70 Playfulness 0.63 Chase 0.73 Aggression 0.28
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Food for thought
• What traits should we improve, everyday behavior? • What traits can we select on? • Are they correlated to goal traits?
• What about imported dogs? International genetic evaluations? • Genomic information easier than traditional quantitative
genetics?
• How will we convince breeders to actually select for better behavior?