To firthcr the asr! of machine vision in animal-relat~d t a s b such m~ automated monito~lqg, an un-iier.stonding of the behaviour of the animals in their ensrtmnment is rcqarired. This paper d e s c ~ b e s an application , the Robotic Sheepdog, whtch exploits animal be-haviozrr to a c h i e v ~ i1.9 goal. We pres~nt a method of au-tonnticnlly mtmcting a model of animal behaviour that ijq deer...

A long-standing interest in animal behaviour has been to understand chains of stimuluseresponse. One approach to understanding the links between stimulus and response has been to use models (animal replicas) in which details of a behaviour can be manipulated to determine how such manipulations influence the response of the focal animal. Static models (Tinbergen & Perdeck 1950; Searcy 1998; McLi...

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