Abstract
The behavioral dynamics within a social group not only could depend on individual traits and social-experience of each member, but more importantly, emerges from inter-individual interactions over time. Herein, we first present a dataset, as well as the corresponding original video recordings, of the results of 4 behavioral tests associated with fear and aggressive response performed on 106 Japanese quail. In a second stage, birds were housed with conspecifics that performed similarly in the behavioral tests in groups of 2 females and 1 male. By continuously monitoring each bird in these small social groups, we obtained time series of social and reproductive behavior, and high-resolution locomotor time series. This approach provides the opportunity to perform precise quantification of the temporal dynamics of behavior at an individual level within different social scenarios including when an individual showing continued aggressive behaviors is present. These unique datasets and videos are publicly available in Figshare and can be used in further analysis, or for comparison with existing or future data sets or mathematical models across different taxa.
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Background & SummaryThe behavioral dynamics within a social group depends on many factors and emerges from the interactions between its members over time
Elsewhere[49] we show that subordinate animals that are continuously pecked at during a 1 h period show quantitatively distinct dynamics of locomotion in comparison to those that receive few or no aggression from conspecifics, deemed dominants
All the procedures were in compliance with the Guide for the Care and Use of Laboratory Animals issued by the National Institute of Health (NIH Publications, Eighth Edition)
Summary
The behavioral dynamics within a social group depends on many factors (i.e. individual traits, prior social-experience of its members, environmental context) and emerges from the interactions between its members over time. Www.nature.com/scientificdata two individuals[19], where a more aggressive bird in a specific environmental/social context becomes dominant In this context, the study of hierarchical social groups in farm animals, and in poultry in particular[12,20,21], has been widely addressed due to welfare implication. By continuously monitoring each bird in these social groups, we obtained time series of social and reproductive behavior and high-resolution locomotor time series This approach provides the opportunity to perform precise quantification of the temporal dynamics of behavior at an individual level within their social environment including when one of the group members is showing continued aggressive behaviors. This data can be used to for comparison with existing or future data sets, and mathematical models developed in other species
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