Predicting livestock behaviour using accelerometers: A systematic review of processing techniques for ruminant behaviour prediction from raw accelerometer data

L Riaboff, L Shalloo, AF Smeaton, S Couvreur… - … and Electronics in …, 2022 - Elsevier
Precision Technologies are emerging in the context of livestock farming to improve
management practices and the health and welfare of livestock through monitoring individual …

Uncovering ecological state dynamics with hidden Markov models

BT McClintock, R Langrock, O Gimenez, E Cam… - Ecology …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Ecological systems can often be characterised by changes among a finite set of underlying
states pertaining to individuals, populations, communities or entire ecosystems through time …

Optimizing the use of biologgers for movement ecology research

HJ Williams, LA Taylor, S Benhamou… - Journal of Animal …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
The paradigm‐changing opportunities of biologging sensors for ecological research,
especially movement ecology, are vast, but the crucial questions of how best to match the …

Estimates for energy expenditure in free‐living animals using acceleration proxies: A reappraisal

RP Wilson, L Börger, MD Holton… - Journal of Animal …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
It is fundamentally important for many animal ecologists to quantify the costs of animal
activities, although it is not straightforward to do so. The recording of triaxial acceleration by …

Observing the unwatchable through acceleration logging of animal behavior

DD Brown, R Kays, M Wikelski, R Wilson… - Animal Biotelemetry, 2013 - Springer
Behavior is an important mechanism of evolution and it is paid for through energy
expenditure. Nevertheless, field biologists can rarely observe animals for more than a …

Validation of cut-points for evaluating the intensity of physical activity with accelerometry-based mean amplitude deviation (MAD)

H Vähä-Ypyä, T Vasankari, P Husu, A Mänttäri… - PloS one, 2015 - journals.plos.org
Purpose Our recent study of three accelerometer brands in various ambulatory activities
showed that the mean amplitude deviation (MAD) of the resultant acceleration signal …

Classification of behaviour in housed dairy cows using an accelerometer-based activity monitoring system

JA Vázquez Diosdado, ZE Barker, HR Hodges… - Animal …, 2015 - Springer
Background Advances in bio-telemetry technology have made it possible to automatically
monitor and classify behavioural activities in many animals, including domesticated species …

First direct measurements of behavioural responses by Cuvier's beaked whales to mid-frequency active sonar

SL DeRuiter, BL Southall, J Calambokidis… - Biology …, 2013 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Most marine mammal strandings coincident with naval sonar exercises have involved
Cuvier's beaked whales (Ziphius cavirostris). We recorded animal movement and acoustic …

Challenges and solutions for studying collective animal behaviour in the wild

LF Hughey, AM Hein… - … of the Royal …, 2018 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Mobile animal groups provide some of the most compelling examples of self-organization in
the natural world. While field observations of songbird flocks wheeling in the sky or anchovy …

Instantaneous energetics of puma kills reveal advantage of felid sneak attacks

TM Williams, L Wolfe, T Davis, T Kendall, B Richter… - Science, 2014 - science.org
Pumas (Puma concolor) live in diverse, often rugged, complex habitats. The energy they
expend for hunting must account for this complexity but is difficult to measure for this and …