Global positioning system (GPS) telemetry technology allows us to monitor and to map the
details of animal movement, securing vast quantities of such data even for highly cryptic …

Over the past three decades, technological advances for monitoring wild animals have
expanded the ability of ecologists to study animal behavior and space use. Currently …

An ethogram is a catalogue of discrete behaviors typically employed by a species.
Traditionally animal behavior has been recorded by observing study individuals directly …

The current biodiversity crisis is characterized by the decline and extinction of numerous
animal populations and species world-wide. To aid in understanding the threats and causes …

Background The use of accelerometers in bio-logging devices has proved to be a powerful
tool for the quantification of animal behaviour. While bio-logging techniques are being used …

Recent technologies have allowed researchers to observe animal behaviour and monitor
their surrounding environments by deploying electronic sensors onto the animals. So-called …

Bio-logging devices equipped with inertial measurement units—particularly accelerometers,
magnetometers, and pressure sensors—have revolutionized our ability to study animals as …

For many animal species that are difficult to access, the behaviour of free-ranging
individuals cannot be assessed by direct observation. In order to remedy this, we developed …

Measurement of acceleration can be a proxy for energy expenditure during movement. The
variable overall dynamic body acceleration (ODBA), used in recent studies, combines the …

Monitoring and describing the physical movements and body postures of animals is one of
the most fundamental tasks of ethology. The more precise the observations are the more …