Acquisition of a high-speed video system

为了更好地了解行为、解剖、发育和生理变化的生态和进化后果，我们将利用充分记录和分析动物运动的能力来研究脊椎动物和无脊椎动物的各种行为和功能。通过研究单个物种和不同物种中的不同个体，运动分析将被用来定义、量化和比较不同的行为(运动)，并确定动物执行任务的相对有效性，如冲刺运动、感觉和与潜在配偶的交流。运动和肌肉活动的同步记录，将被用来检查动物运动的神经控制及其与解剖变异的进化相互关系。使用动画技术修改的视频图像的回放实验将被用来评估不同动作与解剖在物种识别和交配行为中的相对重要性。

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.