Tools and Laboratory Resources

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Computer programs
for data collection and analysis.
- Download Video Analysis for Windows. Digitized video can be stepped
through frame-by-frame and behaviors recorded from the keyboard. This also can collect X-Y
data for position analysis. Download it here. See a
tutorial here. A second
version that's better for recording X-Y positions and behaviors in one run-through of the
film is here.
- Download Timeline for Windows. Accepts input from the above program
and constructs transition matracies along with summary data. Download it here. See a tutorial here.
- Download Behavior Recorder for the Palm Operating System. Allows you
to record behavioral data in the field. Data can then be transferred to Timeline for
analysis. Download it here. See a tutorial here.
- Download Hawk-Dove here. Info
on game theory is here.
- Download Climate Space here.
Info on the model is here.
- Download nerve simulation here.
Read about it here.
- Cut-the-head-off-the-frog Lab. See it here.
- Sound Forge Demo is here (time-limited and will
not record or save). A Sound Forge mini-tutorial is here.
- Audacity Audio Editing is free and
here
- Video for
Windows Use Videdit to compress your video from full frames to Microsoft Video 1
format. A tutorial is here..
- A video digitization tutorial is here.
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Computer programs
for data collection and analysis.
- How to use MainActor Sequencer to create a Difference Movie
- You can use Paint Shop
to capture screens and create drawings for inclusion in your projects.
- A Stata tutorial is
here (under construction)
- Elementary Concepts in Statistics
- Seeing
Statistics
- Ethology and Ecology Software
- Animal Behavior Labs (Lots of good stuff with videos)
- Animal Behavior Labs and
Teaching Links
- Animal Behavior Lab Bench.
- Play with a reverse spectrograph!
- Download Cool Edit Pro
- Noldus Information
Technology
- Introduction to the Observation of Behaviour
- Novel Organic and Natural Product Insecticides
- Bug Bios (COOL)
- Florida Entomologist On-Line. An excellent resource!
- What's New in Entomology
- Species Diversity: Field Studies of Soil Arthropods
- Ethological
Definitions
- Ecology,
Ethology, and Critical Anthropomorphism
- Measuring
Behavior
- Migration
- Animal Behavior & Sociobiology
- Asking
Questions in Biology
- Creature
Comforts
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Computer programs
for data collection and analysis.