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The setup for Experiment 3: control for the smell of paint. Blue and yellow colored bowls are present, but not visible, under the pink and white sieves. The porous portion (white) of the sieves allow smell of the paint to pass through
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Most of the research on color vision related behaviors in dogs has involved training the dogs to perform visual discrimination tasks. We investigated the importance of color to untrained Indian free-ranging dogs (FRDs). Using one-time multi-option choice tests for color preference in 134 adult dogs, we found the dogs to prefer yellow objects over b...