Dog behaviour as related to spinal cord temperature.
3 dogs could behaviourally modify their own spinal cord temperature (Tspin. cord). In a hot environment, 2 dogs did not cool their spinal cord, 1 dog warmed it. The higher the environmental temperature, the higher the chosen Tspin. cord. These results seem to imply that this latter dog tended, in warm environment, to behaviourally reduce: Ts greater than Tspin. cord (Ts mean skin temperature). Data obtained previously support this explanation.
D000818:Animals; D001522:Behavior, Animal; D001833:Body Temperature Regulation; D004285:Dogs; D012879:Skin Physiological Phenomena; D013116:Spinal Cord