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The ultimate objective of this program is to improve the "quality" of livestock guarding dogs (selection, education, behavior), to identify the parameters and situations that influence their effectiveness in protection (pastoral practices, equipment, use of space …) and thus help to adjust prevention strategies and optimize protection systems.
Different experiments have been carried out during the 2013-2015 period, notably in the Mercantour National Park (Alpes-Maritimes, 06) and the military site and plateau of Canjuers (Var, 83). Some initial results have been valued and published. Over 161 nights of thermal imaging observations were made over three optimal herd attack seasons. It is already clear that the behavior of dogs facing the wolf is much more complex than it was imagined. Indeed, if they demonstrate with certainty that they disrupt wolf attacks to the point of preventing them, it would also seem to reveal that not all interactions are in conflict between the two species. For example, in the same sequence of images, a dog can repel a wolf attack and be persistently and an hour later let him access a sheep carcass near the night-corral. In other sequences a male wolf can interact with a dog or a sub-adult wolf signals playful intentions towards the dogs.
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