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Visualizing, recording and analyzing simple and complex behavior

This system enables you to perform automatically controlled behavioral experiments without the disadvantages of an artificial setup such as skinner boxes or running wheels.
An animal in the setup is observed with a video camera mounted above the experimental arena. The camera is connected to a computer running the VIEWER software. VIEWER analyzes the video, identifies the animal, determine its position (head, body and tail), draws its track and issues a comprehensive set of data.

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Examples for tools and parameters you can add to the analysis in an open field:

Manual event recording to produce an ethogram with self defined behaviors
Distance measurement to monitor the animals relativ position to a zone or object
Rearing behavior measurement
Rotation behavior measurement
Sound and ultrasound recording
Remote controled experiment start and stop
Simultaneous start of an uinlimited number of experiments
Live stream the animal's position data to your local network during data acquisition

Basic VIEWER result protocol

Velocity	Velocity classes	Track length	Activity
Distance to the wall	Zone crossing	Rated zone crossing	Ambulations
Area covered	Zone visits	Duration in zones	Zone visit latency
Freezings in zones	Headbobs in zones	Headstretches in zones	Tailmoves in zones
Ambulation in zones	Velocity in zones	Track length in zones

European headquarter:
BIOBSERVE GmbH • Siegburger Str. 35 • 53757 St. Augustin • Germany
Phone: +49 2241 3974200 • Fax: +49 2241 3974299
info@biobserve.com

North America:
2125 Center Ave. • Suite 500 • Fort Lee, NJ 07024
Phone: 201-302-6083 • Fax: 201-302-6062
info@biobserve.com

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