Sv. Budaev, EXPR - A SIMPLE COMPUTER-SYSTEM FOR RECOR DING ANIMAL BEHAVIOR, Zurnal vyssej nervnoj deatelnosti im. I.P. Pavlova, 45(2), 1995, pp. 423-429
A number of different methods for recording animal behaviour are brief
ly reviewed and the computer system <<EXPR>> for the ethological recor
ding of the sequences of behavioural events is described in this artic
le. The main peculiarities of the system are: (a) recorded data are sa
ved to the files created by a data analysis package, (b) it is possibl
e to record simultaneously behaviour of a number of individuals, which
is crucial for the analysis of social interactions. The user can spec
ify the options for different recording tasks through the setup file w
ritten with using special notaiton. The program functioning is illustr
ated by an artificial example.