Data and analysis code for paper ‘It’s cool to be stressed: Body surface temperatures track sympathetic nervous system activation during acute stress'. The raw data consists of body surface temperatures, heart rate, heart rate variability and activity for 38 experimental runs where individual captive house sparrows (Passer domesticus) were subjected to the acute stress of capture and handling (see publication for detailed Methods). All data and code are contained within an R Project folder, compressed to a single Zip archive. The R project contains a renv database containing all software packages and versions used, allowing the analytical environment to be reproduced using the R command renv::restore(). A readme.txt file is provided at the top level of the folder structure detailing the definitions of all variable names used.

R, 4.3.0

Project: Thermal imaging to assess individual physiological state in wild animals