Data Supporting “Studying mate preferences using inertial measurement units: A validation study with treefrogs”

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Data Supporting “Studying mate preferences using inertial measurement units: A validation study with treefrogs”

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2023-01-09

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Gupta, Saumya
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Investigations of mate choice continue to address fundamental questions about the mechanisms and evolution of animal behaviour. A common behavioural assay used to study acoustically guided mate choice with playback experiments is phonotaxis, a typically robust response in which a chooser approaches a sound source broadcasting acoustic signals, such as courtship songs or mating calls. Robust empirical studies of phonotaxis often require substantial laboratory facilities, such as a dedicated and sound-treated room or enclosure, in which the acoustic environment is controlled and in which animals are freely able to move about. The financial and space resources required to outfit a research laboratory to investigate phonotaxis may be sufficiently prohibitive such that some researchers are excluded from undertaking bioacoustic behavioural research. Here, we validate a new device designed to measure animal movements related to phonotaxis behaviour using an inertial measurement unit (IMU). The device is small and portable; it can be constructed for less than $300 US dollars; and the build instructions and code for operation are freely available (Gupta et al., 2020, HardwareX, 8, e00116). In a series of four experiments with treefrogs, we demonstrate using the device that an IMU-based approach to measuring animal movement can replicate a broad range of findings from traditional phonotaxis experiments on species recognition and sexual selection. We conclude by discussing several possible uses for IMU-based measurements of phonotaxis.

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The 8 data and code files in this archive accompany the manuscript "Studying mate preferences using inertial measurement units: A validation study with treefrogs"

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Gupta, S., Marchetto, P.M., & Bee, M.A. (2020). Customizable Recorder of Animal Kinesis (CRoAK): A multi-axis instrumented enclosure for measuring animal movements. HardwareX. 8; e00116.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ohx.2020.e00116

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Gupta, Saumya; Bee, Mark A. (2023). Data Supporting “Studying mate preferences using inertial measurement units: A validation study with treefrogs”. Retrieved from the Data Repository for the University of Minnesota (DRUM), https://doi.org/10.13020/fzk6-1q04.

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