Using Data-Compressors for Classification Hunting Behavioral Sequences in Rodents as “Ethological Texts”
Abstract
:1. Introduction
2. The Suggested Method
3. The Procedure
3.1. Notions and Data Encoding
3.2. Constructing Sequences for Hypothesis Testing
4. Results
5. Discussion and Conclusions
Supplementary Materials
Author Contributions
Funding
Acknowledgments
Conflicts of Interest
Appendix A
Animals and Housing
Experimental Scheme
Symbols | Behavioural Elements |
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Q | Running |
S | Walking |
W | Bite |
E | Capturing the prey by forepaws (only in rodents) |
R | Handling (only in rodents) |
H | Nibbling insects’ legs |
G | Carrying the prey in teeth |
D | Sniffing |
N | Pinning the prey down to the ground by one paw (only in shrew) |
M | The same, by two paws (only in shrew) |
C | Freezing |
V | Turning a body to 90° |
B | U-turn |
F | Turning a head |
Y | Rearing against the wall |
U | Backwards movement |
X | Self-grooming |
J | Jump |
I | Free-standing rearing |
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X* | 1 | 0 |
Y* | 8 | 9 |
x | z | |
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X* | 9 | 0 |
Z* | 0 | 9 |
y | z | |
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Y* | 5 | 0 |
Z* | 4 | 9 |
Species | Sizes of a Source Text Files (Bytes) | Numbers of Sequences in Source Text Files | Sizes of the First Parts of the Source Text Files (Bytes) | Number of the Sample Files Obtained |
---|---|---|---|---|
Rattus norvegicus | 2572 | 108 | 1290 | 9 |
Apodemus agrarius | 3343 | 83 | 1672 | 9 |
Phodopus campbelli | 1715 | 43 | 801 | 4 |
P. sungorus | 1585 | 76 | 792 | 6 |
Allocricetulus eversmanni | 1463 | 60 | 731 | 5 |
Al. curtatus | 2814 | 115 | 1407 | 9 |
Lasiopodomys gregalis | 1086 | 34 | 543 | 3 |
Alticola tuvinicus | 1319 | 157 | 659 | 5 |
Sorex araneus | 1637 | 61 | 818 | 5 |
Species | A. agrarius | L. gregalis |
---|---|---|
A. agrarius | 6 | 0 |
L. gregalis | 3 | 3 |
Species | R. nor. | A. ag. | P. cam. | P. sun. | Al. ev. | Al. cur. | L. gr. | Alt. tuv. | S. ar. |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
R. norvegicus | 0 | 0.58 | 1 | 0.74 | 0.37 | 0.24 | 1 | 0.85 | 1 |
A. agrarius | 0.58 | 0 | 0.28 | 0.87 | 0.85 | 1 | 0.58 | 0.86 | 0.93 |
P. campbelli | 1 | 0.28 | 0 | 0.53 | 0 | 0.44 | 0.73 | 1 | 1 |
P. sungorus | 0.74 | 0.87 | 0.53 | 0 | 0.83 | 0.49 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
Al. eversmanni | 0.37 | 0.85 | 0 | 0.83 | 0 | 0.45 | 0.6 | 1 | 1 |
Al. curtatus | 0.24 | 1 | 0.44 | 0.49 | 0.45 | 0 | 0.82 | 1 | 1 |
L. gregalis | 1 | 0.58 | 0.73 | 1 | 0.6 | 0.82 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
Alt. tuvinicus | 0.85 | 0.86 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
S. araneus | 1 | 0.93 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 |
Species | R. nor. | A. ag. | P. cam. | P. sun. | Al. ev. | Al. cur. | L. gr. | Alt. tuv. | S. ar. |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
R. norvegicus | X | 0.029* | 0.001 ** | 0.011 * | 0.360 | 1.000 | 0.005 ** | 0.005 ** | 0.001 ** |
A. agrarius | X | 1.000 | 0.002 ** | 0.005 ** | 0.001 ** | 0.180 | 0.003 ** | 0.003 ** | |
P. campbelli | X | 0.200 | 1.000 | 0.230 | 0.140 | 0.008 ** | 0.009 ** | ||
P. sungorus | X | 0.015* | 0.100 | 0.020* | 0.002 ** | 0.002 ** | |||
Al. eversmanni | X | 0.150 | 0.190 | 0.008 ** | 0.008 ** | ||||
Al. curtatus | X | 0.020* | 0.001 ** | 0.001 ** | |||||
L. gregalis | X | 0.020 * | 0.020 * | ||||||
Alt. tuvinicus | X | 0.008 ** | |||||||
S. araneus | X |
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Levenets, J.; Novikovskaya, A.; Panteleeva, S.; Reznikova, Z.; Ryabko, B. Using Data-Compressors for Classification Hunting Behavioral Sequences in Rodents as “Ethological Texts”. Mathematics 2020, 8, 579. https://doi.org/10.3390/math8040579
Levenets J, Novikovskaya A, Panteleeva S, Reznikova Z, Ryabko B. Using Data-Compressors for Classification Hunting Behavioral Sequences in Rodents as “Ethological Texts”. Mathematics. 2020; 8(4):579. https://doi.org/10.3390/math8040579
Chicago/Turabian StyleLevenets, Jan, Anna Novikovskaya, Sofia Panteleeva, Zhanna Reznikova, and Boris Ryabko. 2020. "Using Data-Compressors for Classification Hunting Behavioral Sequences in Rodents as “Ethological Texts”" Mathematics 8, no. 4: 579. https://doi.org/10.3390/math8040579