Japanese Quail Locomotor Activity Time Series Over 6.5 Days

High resolution distance ambulated time series in Japanese quail in a home-cage environment over a 6.5 day period contains approximately 1.07 million data points of distance moved by 24 adult female quail. The data was collected by Jackelyn Melissa Kembro using video tracking software. Each data point represents the distance moved by the center of the animal recorded at 0.5-second intervals.

Use Cases

• Modeling circadian rhythms based on continuous 6.5-day activity recordings.
• Analyzing movement patterns and habituation in a home-cage environment based on distance moved time series.
• Studying the effect of daily maintenance interruptions on animal activity based on the described 2% data loss period.
• Comparing locomotor activity between individual birds based on data from 24 subjects.

Strengths

• Approximately 1.07 million data points provides a high-resolution time series.
• Continuous recording over 6.5 days captures long-term behavioral patterns.
• Data from 24 individual subjects allows for comparative analysis.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Data may reflect temporal bias inherent to the specific experimental setup described.

Provenance

Source

Jackelyn Melissa Kembro

Collection Method

Video tracking using ANY-MAZE software to register animal coordinates at 0.5-second intervals.

Time Range

6.5-day continuous recording period.