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. 2018 Aug 30;12:187. doi: 10.3389/fnbeh.2018.00187

Table 1.

The list of the detected activities by the software, definitions of these activities, and their corresponding abbreviations.

Activity Definition Abbreviation
Awaken Any movement from sleep that starts and continues without resumption of sleep awaken
Chew Any brief period during eating where the mouth detaches from the food chew
Come down Any movement of the animal from a fully reared position to a position cd
Come down from partially reared Any movement of the animal from a partially reared up position to a low level cd from pr
Come down to partially reared Any movement of the animal from a fully reared up position to a partially reared up position cd to pr
Dig Any movement with animal's hind limbs inside bedding and resulting in a considerable movement of the bedding dig
Drink In a reared up position. animal's nose/mouth crosses water calibrated line drink
Eat In a reared up position, animal's nose/mouth crosses feeding box calibrated line eat
Forage Any movement with animal's forepaws and/or mouth inside bedding and resulting in a considerable movement of the bedding, typically in front of the animal forage
Groom Deformation of body over a defined criteria and longer than specified time groom
Hang cuddled Any movement of the animal resulting in animal having all four limbs at the top of the cage (more horizontal position at the top of the cage) hc
Hang vertically from hang cuddled Any movement from a hang cuddled position to a hang vertical position hv from hc
Hang vertically from rear up Any movement of the animal resulting in animal leaving the floor and not coming back down immediately and remaining vertical after leaving the floor hv from ru
Jump Any movement from a lower to a higher position and back to the position jump
Land vertically Any movement of the animal from a hanging position with feet off of the floor to the feet coming back down on to the floor land vert
Pause Implemented similar to sleep with those sleep constraints, but lasting only for much smaller prescribed minimum time pause
Rear up Any movement of the animal from a low position to a full reared up position ru
Rear up from partially reared Any movement of the animal from a partially reared position to a fully reared up position ru from pr
Rear up partially Any movement of the animal from position to a partially reared position ru part
Remain hang cuddled After hanging cuddled, remain in a hanging cuddled position remain hc
Remain hang vertically After hanging vertically remain in a vertical position remain hv
Remain partially reared Remain in a partially reared position reaming pr
Remain reared up After rearing up, remain in the reared up position remain ru
Repetitive jumping Any series of successive jump behaviors repet jump
Sleep The onset of sleep is detected at each instance there is no significant movement for a prescribed amount of time sleep
Sniff When the animal is either fully or partially reared, and the tip of the mouth makes some random movements (back and forth, up/down, protrude/retract) sniff
Stationary Any sequence for which there is no translational movement stationary
Stretch body Any movement from shorter to longer/elongated body (horizontally or vertically) stretch body
Turn Any movement of the animal from a side view to a front vice versa turn
Twitch Any brief movement of the animal during sleep twitch
Walk Left Any movement of the animal in left direction over a given distance walk left
Walk Right Any movement of the animal in right direction over a given distance walk right
Walk Slowly Any sideways movement of animal without a definite direction component walk slowly