Social interaction accross different chicken breeds
This is an example how to perform social contact experiments with the Viewer tracking software.

Plug-In: Social Contact

The Scenario
This user investigates the social contact behavior of several animals of two different chicken breeds and is interested wheter there is a difference of social contact behavior within each breed or accross the breeds.

The Setup
Six animals - two breeds with three animals each - are tracked simultaneously in a big arena.
The Viewer software distinguishes the different animals and breeds automatically, there is no need to mark the animals.
In this experiment, the position of the head is the reference point and the program measures the distances between all animal heads continuously.


This animation shows what data are acquired during the experiment.

The animation consists of four slides. Slides appear after four seconds in a loop.

The Data
The data are presented in tables and various graphs.
The table shows all distances between the animals, within the groups (breeds) and accross the groups. You can switch between the distance values and the numbers of contacts with the two buttons on top of the table. The data can be exported as a cvs file to be used in other applications.
Average distance between animal 1 an all other animals.
Average distances within the two groups and between both groups.
Timeline of the group distances.
Average distance between animal 3 (center) and all other animals. The upper half of the circle shows the animals of the same breed as animal 3, the lower half all animals of the second breed.
With the comfortable histogram view you can compare the data easily.
Summary
This solution allows the user a very detailed (head position measurement) analysis of social interaction behavior in real time.
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