Automated Tracking of Primate Behavior

Understanding primate behavior is a mission-critical goal of both biology and biomedicine. Despite the importance of behavior, our ability to rigorously quantify it has heretofore been limited to low-information measures like preference, looking time, and reaction time, or to non-scaleable measures like ethograms. However, recent technological advances have led to a major revolution in behavioral measurement. Specifically, digital video cameras and automated pose tracking software can provide de...