Automated Tracking of Primate Behavior
Understanding primate behavior is a mission-critical goal of both biology and biomedicine. Despite the importance of behavior, our ability to rigorously quantify it has heretofore been limited to low-information measures like preference, looking time, and reaction time, or to non-scaleable measures like ethograms. However, recent technological advances have led to a major revolution in behavioral measurement. Specifically, digital video cameras and automated pose tracking software can provide detailed measures of full body position (i.e., pose) of multiple primates over time (i.e., behavior) with high spatial and temporal resolution. Pose-tracking technology in turn can be used to detect behavioral states, such as eating, sleeping, and mating. The availability of such data has in turn spurred developments in data analysis techniques. Together, these changes are poised to lead to major advances in scientific fields that rely on behavioral as a dependent variable. In this review, we situate the tracking revolution in the history of the study of behavior, argue for investment in and development of analytical and research techniques that can profit from the advent of the era of big behavior, and propose that zoos will have a central role to play in this era.
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