Computer-aided method for calculating animal configurations during social interactions from two-dimensional coordinates of color-marked body parts

Behavior Research Methods, Instruments, and Computers

Volumn 33, Issue 3, 2001, Pages 364-370

  Sustr P ^a,b   Spinka M ^a   Cloutier, S ^c   Newberry, R C ^c  

^a INSTITUTE OF ANIMAL SCIENCE   (Czech Republic)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH BOHEMIA   (Czech Republic)

^c WASHINGTON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; COMPUTER ANALYSIS; COMPUTER PROGRAM; METHODOLOGY; OBSERVATION; OBSERVER VARIATION; REPRODUCIBILITY; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SWINE; VIDEORECORDING;

ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; COMPUTING METHODOLOGIES; OBSERVATION; OBSERVER VARIATION; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOFTWARE; SPATIAL BEHAVIOR; SWINE; VIDEOTAPE RECORDING;

EID: 0035431786     PISSN: 07433808     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/BF03195390     Document Type: Article

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