High resolution, week-long, locomotion time series from Japanese quail in a home-box environment
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2016-06-07Author
Guzmán, Diego A.
Pellegrini, Stefania
Flesia, Ana Georgina
Aon, Miguel A.
Marin, Raúl H.
Kembro, Jackelyn M.
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Temporal and spatial patterns of locomotion reflect both resting periods and the movement from one place to another to satisfy physiological and behavioural needs. Locomotion is studied in diverse areas of biology such as chronobiology and physiology, as well as in biomathematics. Herein, the locomotion of 24 visually-isolated Japanese quails in their home-box environment was recorded continuously over a 6.5 days at a 0.5 s sampling rate. Three time series are presented for each bird: (1) locomotor activity, (2) distance ambulated, and (3) zone of the box where the bird is located. These high resolution, week-long, time series consisting of 1.07 × 10 6 data points represent, to our knowledge, a unique data set in animal behavior, and are publically available on FigShare. The data obtained can be used for analyzing dynamic changes of daily or several day locomotion patterns, or for comparison with existing or future data sets or
mathematical models across different taxa.
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Guzmán, D., Pellegrini, S., Flesia, A., Aon, M., Marin, R. and Kembro, J. High resolution, week-long, locomotion time series from Japanese quail in a home-box environment. Sci Data 3, 160036 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1038/sdata.2016.36
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