Social interaction set-up

No matter for what purpose you are investigating social interaction in fish, our software and hardware help you out.

Concentrate completely on the fish to be observed and logging their behaviors; The Observer XT automatically adds time stamps to the logged events.
Code detailed social behaviors rapidly and automatically calculate statistics, such as the total duration each fish has been chased.
Log behavior live or from previously recorded video files.
Playback those parts of the video in which a lot of interactions occur to take a second look at it and edit or add events.
Select data for analysis in order to calculate statistics on certain observations, fish, or event types, not others.
Make clips of those video parts of interest to you.

Examples of parameters


Percentage of time in which the dominant male was displaying. Total time in which two individuals were swimming parallel. Number of copulation attempts of each male. Frequency of ‘flights’ by one fish while it was attacked by another fish.

Components

Optional components

Selected publications


Miranda, A.; Almeida, O.; Hubbard, P.; Barata, E.; Canario, A. (2005). Olfactory discrimination of female reproductive status by male tilapia (Oreochromis mossambicus). The Journal of Experimental Biology, 208, 2037-2043. Price, A.; Rodd, F. (2006). The effect of social environment on male-male competition in guppies (Poecilia reticulata). Ethology, 112, 22 -32.