Quantitative Method to Assess Acute Stress Related Behavior in Dogs by Using Motion Capture Technology
Journal Title: International Journal of Advances in Scientific Research - Year 2015, Vol 1, Issue 6
Abstract
Animal therapy is a form of healthcare intervention conducted with the aid of therapy animals, most commonly dogs. For a therapy dog to play an active role in animal therapy, an animal therapist must design a therapy program, which does not place the dog under stress. Generally, a dog’s stress can be evaluated by observing its behavior. However, existing ethological evaluation indices of stress behavior are subjective and obscure, and discrimination between dogs’ stress behaviors is difficult for observers with insufficient experience. Thus, we propose to quantitatively evaluate behaviors associated with acute stress in dogs. We quantified dog’s behavior by using a motion capture system. Specifically, body and ear postures such as the “opening degree of left and right ears,” “anteroposterior tilt of left and right ears,” “height of the vertex above the floor,” “height of the center of gravity above the floor,” and “angle between the lateral axis of the body and the floor” were recorded using nine motion capture markers. During the experiments, a canine subject was acutely stressed using a tail clamp, and the dog’s posture while under stress was quantitatively distinguished from non-stress postures via quadratic discrimination analysis (QDA). From the results, we distinguished the dog’s body and ears postures while under acute stress from those under non-stressed conditions with 81% sensitivity and 93% specificity, and a quantitative evaluation of the dog’s acute stress behavior was carried out.
Authors and Affiliations
Motoki Sakai
Keywords
Related Articles
- EP ID EP333861
- DOI 10.7439/ijasr.v1i6.2234
- Views 133
- Downloads 0
Absorbance Correction Method for Simultaneous Estimation of Nifedipine and Metoprolol Succinate in Their Synthetic Mixture Using From Spectrophotometry
A new simple, economical, precise and accurate method are described for the simultaneous determination of Nifedipine (NIF) and Metoprolol Succinate (MET) in combined tablet dosage form. The proposed method was applied fo...
Different types of Sybili attacks and their importance and properties for finding latest mechanism
A Mobile Ad hoc Network (MANET) consists of a set of communicating wireless mobile nodes or devices that do not have any form of fixed infrastructure or centralized authority. The security in MANET has become a significa...
Studies on temporal variation of sound level on long time scale in Burdwan town – A Case Study from West Bengal, India
Noise pollution is recognized as one of the major fear that affects the quality of life in urban areas across the globe. Burdwan, a district headquarter (100 km away from Kolkata) is one such town where noise pollution i...
Presacral Hemangiopericytoma: Case Report
Hemangiopericytoma is rare tumor originating from the pericytes, the contractile cells that surround capillaries. This tumor arises from pericapillary cells or pericytes of Zimmerman and can occur anywhere where capillar...
The language of philosophy and the philosophy of language: A symbiotic paradigm
This paper was focused on the relationship between the discipline of Philosophy and Language: an interplay that has been found to be a sublime in terms of the conceptual methodological and classificatory values. The logi...