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Validating An Automated Classification System For Snake Movement Behavior: Refining And Extending The Radio Telemetry-Accelerometry Framework, Dominic L. Desantis

College of Arts and Sciences

An animal’s behavioral decisions, such as when, why, and how individuals move through their environment, are mediated by a complex interplay between internal (e.g., sex, physiological state, motivational state) and external (e.g., environmental conditions, predation, competition) factors. A detailed understanding of the causes and consequences of these decisions for many species has historically been precluded by methodological constraints. However, a recent wave of advancements in sensor technologies circumvents many of these traditional limitations and has spurred the emerging field of biologging science. Animal-attached dataloggers (or biologgers) give researchers the ability to remotely monitor an individual’s physiology and behavior in the …