Behavior has become a big data science. At MPI-AB, our mission is driven by data-oriented research with an emphasis on creating and making available the next generation of quantitative tools. Our researchers are supported by advanced computing technologies and innovative software solutions that enable them to turn their high-volume data streams towards answering the complex questions of modern behavioral research. In turn, the data and code they produce is shared openly, helping the global research community make the discoveries of tomorrow.
Movebank is a free, online database of animal tracking data hosted by MPI-AB. Movebank helps animal tracking researchers to manage, share, protect, analyze, and archive their data.
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The Animal Tracker App draws animal movement data out of Movebank and shares it with the global public on a user-friendly interface. Users can follow tracked animals wherever these happen to be in the world, while in turn contributing to research by posting observations and photos of tagged animals that they encounter.
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MoveApps is an open analysis platform for animal tracking data, developed with the aim to make sophisticated analytical tools accessible to a global community of movement ecologists and wildlife managers. MoveApps allows users to interactively design and share workflows composed of analysis modules (Apps) that access and analyse tracking data. Users browse Apps, build workflows, customise parameters, execute analyses and access results through an intuitive web-based interface.
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TREX can track up to 100 individuals while maintaining their separate identities without the need for physical markers. The tool also integrates features such as estimating an individual’s 2D posture and visual field, and the ability to track positions of up to 256 individuals in real-time.
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DeepPoseKit is a software toolkit with a high-level API for 2D pose estimation of user-defined keypoints using deep learning—written in Python and built using Tensorflow and Keras.
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For decades, researchers have been observing orangutans at Suaq Balimbing in Indonesia and compiling one of the largest databases on orangutan behavior. This database will pave the way for understanding how skills and abilities develop in individuals and, ultimately, the evolution of high-level cognition in great apes.
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