Application of a video technique to study the time budget of mosquito larva behaviour
Rodney L. Itaki
Abstract
Constructing a time budget is an integral part of data collection when studying animal behaviour. Advancement in information communication technologies offers new ways of recording animal behaviour and obtaining data from digital images. We video taped mosquito larva behaviour and digitalized the images. Time budgets were then constructed from the digital images and analyzed. Digitalizing the tape recordings facilitated data collection for making the time budget. The observation experiments and the video technique are presented and discussed.
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