Dog appeasing pheromone prevents the androgen surge and may reduce contact dominance and active submission after stressful interventions in African wild dogs (Lycaon pictus)

• Femke Van den Berghe,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Visualization, Writing – original draft

  Affiliations Gamete and Embryology (GAME) Laboratory, College of Public Health, Medical and Veterinary Sciences, James Cook University, Townsville, QLD, Australia, Institute for Breeding Rare and Endangered African Mammals (IBREAM), Edinburgh, Scotland

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• Monique C. J. Paris,

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Institute for Breeding Rare and Endangered African Mammals (IBREAM), Edinburgh, Scotland, Wageningen Livestock Research, Wageningen, The Netherlands

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• Zoltan Sarnyai,

  Roles Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Laboratory of Psychiatric Neuroscience, Australian Institute of Tropical Health and Medicine (AITHM) and College of Public Health, Medical and Veterinary Sciences, James Cook University, Townsville, QLD, Australia

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• Bart Vlamings,

  Roles Validation

  Affiliation Institute for Breeding Rare and Endangered African Mammals (IBREAM), Edinburgh, Scotland

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• Robert P. Millar,

  Roles Resources, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Institute for Breeding Rare and Endangered African Mammals (IBREAM), Edinburgh, Scotland, Centre for Neuroendocrinology, Department of Immunology, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, South Africa

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• Andre Ganswindt,

  Roles Methodology, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Institute for Breeding Rare and Endangered African Mammals (IBREAM), Edinburgh, Scotland, Mammal Research Institute, Faculty of Natural and Agricultural Sciences, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, South Africa, Endocrine Research Laboratory, Faculty of Veterinary Science, University of Pretoria, Onderstepoort, South Africa

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• Alessandro Cozzi,

  Roles Resources, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Institut de Recherche en Sémiochimie et Ethologie Appliquée, Apt, France

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• Patrick Pageat,

  Roles Resources, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Institut de Recherche en Sémiochimie et Ethologie Appliquée, Apt, France

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• Damien B. B. P. Paris

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: damien.paris@jcu.edu.au

  Affiliations Gamete and Embryology (GAME) Laboratory, College of Public Health, Medical and Veterinary Sciences, James Cook University, Townsville, QLD, Australia, Institute for Breeding Rare and Endangered African Mammals (IBREAM), Edinburgh, Scotland, Centre for Tropical Environmental & Sustainability Science, James Cook University, Townsville, QLD, Australia

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