First of all I wanna thank you Phill for posting this very interesting study!
But - and this has nothing to do with you of course
There was an EXACT SAME study back in 2010, entitled
"VARIATION IN THE ONSET AND EXPRESSION OF
HAZARD AVOIDANCE BEHAVIOR ACROSS THREE BREEDS OF DOMESTIC DOGS"
A Thesis
Presented in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of a Master of Science in the Graduate School of The Ohio State University
By
Mary E. Kopechek, B.S.
Graduate Program in Animal Sciences
The Ohio State University
2010 Thesis Committee:
Dr. Joseph Ottobre, Advisor
Dr. Joy Pate, Advisor
Dr. Peter Neville
Dr. Normand St-Pierre
Here is the link
https://etd.ohiolink.edu/rws_etd/doc...8233077/inline
The authors of the 2015 study are
Mary Morrow,
Joseph Ottobre,
Ann Ottobre,
Peter Neville,
Normand St-Pierre,
Nancy Dreschelc,
Joy Patec,
I don't see any Mary E. Kopechek