High-resolution behavioral time series of Japanese quail within their social environment

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

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Nature Group

Año: 2019

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