In the desert locust, Schistocerca gregaria, the frontal ganglion (FG) plays a key role in control of foregut movements, and constitutes a source of innervation to the foregut dilator muscles. In this work we studied the generation and characteristics of FG motor outputs in two distinct and fundamental behaviours: feeding and moulting. The FG motor pattern was found to be complex, and strongly ...

Broiler feeding is an efficient way of evaluating growth performance, health, and welfare status. This assessment might include the number meals, meal period, ingestion rate, intervals, proportion time spent eating. These parameters can be predicted by studying birds’ pecking activity. The present study aims to design, examine, validate classifying algorithms determine individual bird patterns ...