High-resolution behavioral time series of Japanese quail within their social environment.

ABSTRACT: The behavioral dynamics within a social group not only could depend on individual traits and social-experience of each member, but more importantly, emerges from inter-individual interactions over time. Herein, we first present a dataset, as well as the corresponding original video recordings, of the results of 4 behavioral tests associated with fear and aggressive response performed on 106 Japanese quail. In a second stage, birds were housed with conspecifics that performed similarly in the behavioral tests in groups of 2 females and 1 male. By continuously monitoring each bird in these small social groups, we obtained time series of social and reproductive behavior, and high-resolution locomotor time series. This approach provides the opportunity to perform precise quantification of the

SUBMITTER: Caliva JM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6890678 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature