![Tracks overlaid using tracking data from Tracktor. Copyright: Helder Hugo dos Santos The figure shows a group of eight termites, four soldiers and four workers, exploring a circular arena. The tracks can later be used to calculate group level summary statistics such as polarisation and rotation. Code for this is also available on the corresponding example notebook. Copyright: Helder Hugo dos Santos](/fileadmin/_processed_/d/b/csm_New_Tracking_Tool_3011cb4a3c.jpg)
New tracking tool for animal movement and behaviour
Researchers from the University of Konstanz, the Max Planck Institute for Ornithology and the University of Neuchâtel develop a new image-based automated tracking tool for the advanced study of animal movement and behaviour. Tracktor is open access, open source and capable of tracking unmarked organisms in noisy environments.
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