Acquisition of a high-speed video system

总的目标是更好地了解 行为的生态和进化后果， 解剖学、发育学和生理学上的变异，我们 将充分记录和分析 动物运动，用于研究各种行为 在脊椎动物和无脊椎动物中发挥作用。 通过 研究同一物种中的不同个体， 不同的物种，运动分析将被用来定义， 量化和比较不同的行为（运动）， 确定动物表演的相对有效性 如短跑运动，感觉， 与潜在伴侣交流 同时记录 运动和肌肉活动，将被用来检查 动物运动的神经控制及其进化 与解剖变异的相互关系。 回放 使用动画修改的视频图像的实验 技术将被用来评估的相对重要性， 不同的动作和解剖结构 识别和交配行为。

With the general goals of better understanding the ecological and evolutionary consequences of behavioral, anatomical, developmental, and physiological variation, we will use the capacity to adequately record and analyze animal motion for the study of a wide variety of behaviors and functions in vertebrates and invertebrates. By studying different individuals within a single species and different species, motion analysis will be used to define, quantify and compare different behaviors (movements) and determine the relative effectiveness of animals performing tasks such as sprinting locomotion, feeling, and communicating with potential mates. Simultaneous records of motion and muscle activity, will be used to examine the neural control of animal movements and its evolutionary interrelationships with anatomical variation. Playback experiments using video images modified with animation techniques will be used to asses the relative importance of different movements versus anatomy in the species recognition and mating behaviors.