ANTHRO 128A Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Ethogram, Ad Libitum
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Foraging behaviors: handle bp fruit, break, bite, ingest, drop. Change of direction: focal looks up, focal looks down, focal jumps. Change of substrate: on the ground, on the branch, on a rock. Twitter for differ reasons, mostly for positive social, hard twitter used for group movement. Focal is in view, focal is out of view. Use when monkey is out of view/hidden in a place you cannot observe. Might miss certain things if everything is being observed. Enter group, focus on each at a time, write down id, what theyre doing and how far apart are others from them - do this for each animals. Can intro a lot of bias - like things that are big/loud/ indivs that are more visible. Focus on one indiv and record their interactions with others around them. Focus on one indiv and record their interactions with others around them and actions every minute. Emigrated to new group - is his first day.
