Accelerometer validity and placement for detection of changes in physical activity in dogs under controlled conditions on a treadmill

Preston, Timothy; Baltzer, Wendy I.; Trost, Stewart G.

doi:10.1016/j.rvsc.2011.08.005

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“…This result was consistent with the findings of previous studies that used much smaller numbers of cats (Watanabe et al, 2005;Lascelles et al, 2008). Accelerometers have also been validated against observed activity in a number of other species, including dogs (Yamada and Tokuriki, 2000;Hansen et al, 2007;Yam et al, 2011;Preston et al, 2012), rhesus monkeys (Papailiou et al, 2008), humans (Trost et al, 2000;Penpraze et al, 2006) and dairy cows (McGowan et al, 2007), with varying levels of accuracy.…”

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Quantification of activity in domestic cats (Felis catus) by accelerometry

Andrews

Potter

Thomas

2015

Applied Animal Behaviour Science

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Quantification of activity in domestic cats (Felis catus) by accelerometry

Andrews

Potter

Thomas

2015

Applied Animal Behaviour Science

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“…In humans, it has been well established that precise accelerometer-based descriptions of full-body movement require at least five acceleration sensors, one mounted on the trunk of the body and one on each extremity [26]. Studies of free-ranging wild animal are typically limited to one telemetry tag per individual; however, multiple accelerometer instruments have been used on domesticated animals [149][150][151][152] and in a handful of wild marine species [53,54,[153][154][155][156][157], improving the precision of behavior measurements.…”

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Observing the unwatchable through acceleration logging of animal behavior

Brown

Kays

Wikelski

et al. 2013

Animal Biotelemetry

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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 fraction of their daily activities and attempts to quantify behavior for modeling ecological processes often exclude cryptic yet important behavioral events. Over the past few years, an explosion of research on remote monitoring of animal behavior using acceleration sensors has smashed the decades-old limits of observational studies. Animal-attached accelerometers measure the change in velocity of the body over time and can quantify fine-scale movements and body postures unlimited by visibility, observer bias, or the scale of space use. Pioneered more than a decade ago, application of accelerometers as a remote monitoring tool has recently surged thanks to the development of more accessible hardware and software. It has been applied to more than 120 species of animals to date. Accelerometer measurements are typically collected in three dimensions of movement at very high resolution (>10 Hz), and have so far been applied towards two main objectives. First, the patterns of accelerometer waveforms can be used to deduce specific behaviors through animal movement and body posture. Second, the variation in accelerometer waveform measurements has been shown to correlate with energy expenditure, opening up a suite of scientific questions in species notoriously difficult to observe in the wild. To date, studies of wild aquatic species outnumber wild terrestrial species and analyses of social behaviors are particularly few in number. Researchers of domestic and captive species also tend to report methodology more thoroughly than those studying species in the wild. There are substantial challenges to getting the most out of accelerometers, including validation, calibration, and the management and analysis of large quantities of data. In this review, we illustrate how accelerometers work, provide an overview of the ecological questions that have employed accelerometry, and highlight the emerging best practices for data acquisition and analysis. This tool offers a level of detail in behavioral studies of free-ranging wild animals that has previously been impossible to achieve and, across scientific disciplines, it improves understanding of the role of behavioral mechanisms in ecological and evolutionary processes. AbstractResumen: El comportamiento es un mecanismo importante de la evolución y que se paga a través del gasto de energía. Sin embargo, los biólogos de campo raramente observan los animales durante más de una fracción de sus actividades y los intentos de cuantificar el comportamiento para el modelado de los procesos ecológicos a menudo excluyen eventos crípticos pero importantes. En los últimos años se produjeron avances importantes en el monitoreo remoto del comportamiento de los animales, utilizando sensores de telemétro de aceleración (acelerómetros) que empujan los límites tradicionales de los estudios observacionales. Acelerómetros uni...

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“…Thus, a Wi-Fi range extender was used to completely cover the distance between those boxes and the Wi-Fi station. Many studies have been performed to validate the usefulness of small, lightweight, motionsensing accelerometers for pets 44 and humans [46][47][48][49][50][51][52][53][54] . The sensor used in this clinical evaluation presents some limitations with respect to the goldstandard method of using a video camera 55,56 , such as a lack of specificity in distinguishing rest activity from sleep and general motion from an anxiety-related one.…”

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“…In fact, after registration with the website of the product company, the station can gather and store information that can be seen either on a computer or on a mobile device, even at a long distance (i.e., beyond the Bluetooth and Wi-Fi range). Possible further applications of this sensor will be the monitoring of excessive movement in dogs affected by separation anxiety [47][48][49][50][51][52][53][54] , abnormal repetitive behaviors 60 , or narcolepsy 61 once left alone at home.…”

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Behavioral Disturbances: An Innovative Approach to Monitor the Modulatory Effects of a Nutraceutical Diet

Cerbo

Sechi

Canello

et al. 2017

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In dogs, diets are often used to modulate behavioral disturbances related to chronic anxiety and stress caused by intense and restless activity. However, the traditional ways to monitor behavioral changes in dogs are complicated and not efficient. In the current clinical evaluation, a new, simple monitoring system was used to assess the effectiveness of a specific diet in positively modulating the intense and restless activity of 24 dogs of different ages and breeds. This protocol describes how to easily and rapidly evaluate improvement in a set of symptoms related to generalized anxiety by using a specific sensor, a mobile phone app, a wireless router, and a computer. The results showed that dogs treated with specific diets showed significant improvement in the times spent active and at rest after 10 days (p < 0.01 and p < 0.05, respectively). These dogs also showed an overall significant improvement in clinical and behavioral symptoms. A specific sensor, along with its related hardware, was demonstrated to successfully monitor behavioral changes relating to movement in dogs.

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Accelerometer validity and placement for detection of changes in physical activity in dogs under controlled conditions on a treadmill

Cited by 43 publications

References 25 publications

Quantification of activity in domestic cats (Felis catus) by accelerometry

Quantification of activity in domestic cats (Felis catus) by accelerometry

Observing the unwatchable through acceleration logging of animal behavior

Behavioral Disturbances: An Innovative Approach to Monitor the Modulatory Effects of a Nutraceutical Diet

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