"For our research, EthoVision XT is an essential tool for sophisticated analysis of behavior as it relates to neural circuit function"
Garret Stuber, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, UNC Neuroscience center, Chapel Hill, USA

“EthoVision software has dramatically improved all areas of behavior testing”
Joshua Matulonis, Research Foundation at Stony Brook University, USA

“Tracking software is in the forefront of scientific studies, but various software platforms are either not reliable or very difficult to use. EthoVision XT provides extremely reliable software with an interface that allows everyone to easily track animals” - Erik R. Duboue, New York University, USA

"A great tool for tracking very small insect larvae under IR conditions"
Nick Birch, Scottish Crop Researcher Institute, Dundee, UK

"We successfully use EthoVision and plan to use The Observer in practice for our students"
Marina Pleskacheva, Moscow State University, Lab. Of Physiology, Genetics and Behavior, Moscow, Russian Federation

"EthoVision saves time, perhaps lives. In effect, PhD students can do more research in less labor-intensive time"
Samuel Adeosun, University of Mississippi Medical Center, Jackson, USA

"EthoVision XT is a great product, EthoVision just gets better and better"
Thomas van Groen, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Cell Biology department, Brimingham, USA

“EthoVision is user-friendly and incredibly versatile: it can be used for a wide variety of behavioral experiments, across different lighting conditions (and coat colors), and can track from a range of distances between camera and subject.” - Jerome Pagani, Behavioral Neuroscientist, USA

"EthoVision allows me to track videos accurately and reliably. Now I can use the hours that I used to spend with timers, pen and paper working on other areas of my research"
Jacqueline Womersley, University of CapeTown, Department of Human Biology, Cape Town, South Africa

“This is the best tracking system for open field behavior!”
David Eilam, Tel-Aviv University, Zoology Department, Israel

“A truly useful software to understand animal behavior”
Allan V. Kalueff, Kalueff lab, Tulane University Medical School, USA

“EthoVision XT has a convenient tracking/video system with excellent data analysis options and it is fairly intuitive to use”
Diane Lim, University of Pennsylvania, USA

“Really nice tracking program”
Matt Andrzejewski, University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA

“EthoVision XT has allowed our lab to collect rich behavioral data that would have been impossible with our analog system”
Joshua Herrington, Florida International University, USA

“This set of programs allows for flexibility of behavioral observations, scoring and data analyses”
Craig Kinsley, University of Richmond, USA

Data analysis

In-depth analysis of your data

EthoVision XT does not stop after collecting the data. You can also use EthoVision XT to perform in-depth analysis. The number of parameters that can be used is substantial, including trial duration, in zone, distance to zone, distance to zone border, distance moved, velocity, heading, turn angle, angular velocity, mobility, proximity, rotations, elongation, etc. Statistics include mean, variance, standard deviation, standard error, minimum, maximum, sum, total, number of samples, etc.

For instance: use elongation, mobility, and head direction parameters when you are performing a novel object recognition test, a plus maze test, or a fear conditioning test. The stretch-attend posture, characterized by elongation of the animal’s body, is often considered a response to an object that incites fear or curiosity. Additionally, time spent immobile serves as a measure of fear. The rotation parameter is very useful in research on brain defects.

EthoVision data analysis

You can zoom in into tracks or parts of tracks by the powerful data selection criteria EthoVision XT offers. Selecting data in which animals received a specific treatment allows you to only analyze those data and ignore others. Or nest your data on time, zone or a behavioral state. The results can be visualized in a time-event plot together with the track data and the video file. This way you get an instant feel for your data. Analysis results are also represented in a table. Of course you can export your (raw) track data for further analysis with statistical software programs.