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A Data Acquisition and Retrieval System for Studies of Animal Social Behaviour

A Data Acquisition and Retrieval System for Studies of Animal Social Behaviour A DATA ACQUISITION AND RETRIEVAL SYSTEM FOR STUDIES OF ANIMAL SOCIAL BEHAVIOUR by STUART R. BUTLER and EDWARD A. ROWE 1) (Department of Anatomy, The Medical School, Birmingham, England) (With 2 Figures) (Acc. 3 VIII.1975) In studies of mammalian social behaviour it is becoming increasingly important to recognise and record a large number of distinct behaviour patterns. As many as fifty different social acts and postures have been des- cribed in the rat, mouse, guinea pig and hamster (GRANT & MACKINTOSH, 1963) while over one hundred and twenty have been identified for the rhesus monkey (ALTMANN, 1965). The size of the behavioural catalogue and the rapidity with which the acts occur is such that traditional methods of acquiring data, such as the notebook or multichannel event recorder, are no longer appropriate for many areas of investigation. An early attempt to meet the difficulty of recording sufficient infonna- tion was based on commentaries, tape recorded during periods of observation and employing one observer per animal (GRANT & MACKINTOSH, loco cit.). The problem of retrieving the data remained. Methods have since been developed in which the data is encoded on magnetic tape in a form which can be deciphered automatically by http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Behaviour Brill

A Data Acquisition and Retrieval System for Studies of Animal Social Behaviour

Butler, Stuart R.; Rowe, Edward A.
Behaviour , Volume 57 (3-4): 7 – Jan 1, 1976
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A DATA ACQUISITION AND RETRIEVAL SYSTEM FOR STUDIES OF ANIMAL SOCIAL BEHAVIOUR by STUART R. BUTLER and EDWARD A. ROWE 1) (Department of Anatomy, The Medical School, Birmingham, England) (With 2 Figures) (Acc. 3 VIII.1975) In studies of mammalian social behaviour it is becoming increasingly important to recognise and record a large number of distinct behaviour patterns. As many as fifty different social acts and postures have been des- cribed in the rat, mouse, guinea pig and hamster (GRANT & MACKINTOSH, 1963) while over one hundred and twenty have been identified for the rhesus monkey (ALTMANN, 1965). The size of the behavioural catalogue and the rapidity with which the acts occur is such that traditional methods of acquiring data, such as the notebook or multichannel event recorder, are no longer appropriate for many areas of investigation. An early attempt to meet the difficulty of recording sufficient infonna- tion was based on commentaries, tape recorded during periods of observation and employing one observer per animal (GRANT & MACKINTOSH, loco cit.). The problem of retrieving the data remained. Methods have since been developed in which the data is encoded on magnetic tape in a form which can be deciphered automatically by

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