Anomalous diffusion on the servosphere: A potential tool for detecting inherent organismal movement patterns.

ABSTRACT: Tracking animal movements such as walking is an essential task for understanding how and why animals move in an environment and respond to external stimuli. Different methods that implemented image analysis and a data logger such as GPS have been used in laboratory experiments and in field studies, respectively. Recently, animal movement patterns without stimuli have attracted an increasing attention in search for common innate characteristics underlying all of their movements. However, it is difficult to track the movements in a vast and homogeneous environment without stimuli because of space constraints in laboratories or environmental heterogeneity in the field, hindering our understanding of inherent movement patterns. Here, we applied an omnidirectional treadmill mechanism, or a serv

SUBMITTER: Nagaya N 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5453419 | biostudies-literature | 2017

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature