The use of visual media as a tool for investigating animal behaviour

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 85, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 525-536

  Nelson, Ximena J ^a   Fijn, Natasha ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CANTERBURY   (New Zealand)

^b AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

'people power'; Citizen science; Crowdsourcing; Internet; Online resource; Opportunistic observation; Playback study; Preliminary testing; YouTube

Indexed keywords

ACADEMIC RESEARCH; ANIMAL; BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY; INTERNET; PLAY; RESEARCH WORK; VIDEOGRAPHY; VISUAL ANALYSIS;

ANIMALIA; CANIS FAMILIARIS; EQUIDAE;

EID: 84875253764     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.anbehav.2012.12.009     Document Type: Article

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