Automatic Animal Behavior Analysis System

Animal behavior refers to the response made by individual animals and animal communities to adapt to environmental changes, which involves adjusting the relationship between internal and external conditions and dynamically adapting to the surrounding biotic and abiotic environments. Animal behavior is a dynamic process of movement, change, and adaptation to its living environment.

Due to the pursuit of observing real experimental situations and collecting real experimental results in scientific research, it is more required in animal behavior research that the observed phenomena are the true reactions of the animals themselves, and the interference on the experimental results should be minimized as much as possible. Observing without being noticed by animals, having a comfortable living environment and a reasonable experimental sequence are necessary conditions for animal behavior research. Laboratories conducting research on animal behavior must meet these conditions, so when renovating or constructing behavioral laboratories, attention should be paid to the following aspects.

1. The room for testing the animal behavior analysis system needs to be quiet or maintain a uniform white noise background to cover up the sound emitted by the behavioral equipment itself (such as the sound of a computer fan, the sound of an electrical stimulator, etc.), and keep each animal in the same sound background every time. Soundproofing devices should be installed between adjacent laboratories.

2. The laboratory is located near the room where animals reside. Transporting animals from residential rooms to laboratories through different buildings, floors, or long corridors can provide stimulation to the animals, not to mention the sounds of vehicles, elevators, and changes in lighting during transportation, which can affect subsequent behavioral tests.

3. The laboratory of the animal behavior analysis system should be equipped with corresponding curtains or obstacles to hide the observer; At the same time, when designing in the laboratory, attention should be paid to maintaining a distance between the observer and the animals, in order to prevent the observer from being detected by the animals.

4. Attention should be paid to the odor in the behavioral testing laboratory, and an independent laboratory ventilation system should be established. Monitor the ventilation in the laboratory and the observer's own odor, and maintain consistency with the odor that each animal comes into contact with each time.

5. The temperature, humidity, animal cages, and other conditions in the laboratory for behavioral testing should be kept as consistent as possible with those in the animal rearing room.