Electronic Tracking and Recording System for Behavioral Observations, with Application to Toxicology and Pheromone Assay

Abstract

An Apple II microcomputer, in conjunction with a video camera, a digitizer, and a digital clock, provides a system that records the path of an animal and stores the information as a time series of X and Y coordinates on a magnetic disk. The method has general application for recording the movements of individual animals on high contrast backgrounds.