High-resolution behavioral time series of Japanese quail in diverse social environments

CALIVA, J.M.; ALCALA, R.; GUZMAN, D. A.; MARIN, R.H.; KEMBRO, J.M.

Scientific Data

Macmillan Publishers Limited

Año: 2019 vol. 6 p. 1 - 11

The behavioral dynamics within a social group not only depends on the personalities and social-experience of each member, but more importantly, emerges from inter-individual interactions over time. Herein, we first present a dataset of the results of 4 behavioral test associated with personality traits performed on 106 Japanese quail. Test-performance was used to favor the conformation of divergent social scenarios (with and without a dominant member). By continuously monitoring each bird in these small social groups, we obtained time series of social and reproductive behavior, and high-resolution locomotor time series. This approach provides the opportunity to perform precise quantification of the temporal dynamics of behavior at an individual level within different social scenarios including when an individual showing continued aggressive behaviors is present. These unique data set are publically available in figshare and can be used in further analysis, or for comparison with existing or future data sets or mathematical models across different taxa.