Experimental device for simulating prey movement in behavioral hunting experiment

Abstract

The invention belongs to the technical field of animal behavioral research, and particularly discloses an experimental device for simulating prey movement in a behavioral hunting experiment. The device comprises: a box body with an opening in one side, wherein a box door is hinged to the opening of the box body, the box body and the box door are both made of transparent materials, background plates are laid on five side surfaces in the box body in a detachable manner, and patterns or entity sceneries for simulating natural environments can be additionally arranged on the background plates, so as to provide natural environment states required by research; the device further comprises: a traction device, which is used for conducting pulling motion on living prey, and controlling movement speed, movement tracking, and start-stop states of the living prey, wherein the traction device can be detachably fixed to a set position in the box body through a first fixing part. The scheme is mainly applied to behavioral hunting experiments, and can meet the requirements of observing and researching behaviors of predators by using living prey.

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technical field [0001] The invention belongs to the technical field of animal behavior research, and specifically discloses an experimental device for simulating prey movement in behavior hunting experiments. Background technique [0002] In the domestic ecological research, animal behavior is a new discipline, and the research on the behavior of arthropods has gradually attracted the attention of researchers. The development of agriculture has been an important goal of my country's development for a long time. Research on the hunting behavior of predatory arthropods may provide some guidance for the development of ecological agriculture in the future, especially spiders and stinkbugs, which are the main natural enemies of agricultural pests. . [0003] In the past, research on hunting behavior usually focused on the relationship between predators and stationary prey, but considering the influence of factors such as foraging and reproduction, it is impossible for prey to rem...

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[0004] If we want to explore the influence of prey movement on predator hunting behavior, it is essential to simulate the movement of prey during the experiment. In the past, computer virtual modeling was widely used to artificially control the pattern, speed and background of prey. environment, and observe the predator's response to the prey on the screen, but the main drawback of this method is that the predator is never in contact with the real prey in the experiment, and predators like spiders, such as jumping spiders, their The visual system is different from that of humans. Their visible light is green to ultraviolet, and the colors they can see are very different from humans. Therefore, it is impossible to determine how much difference this type of experiment has from the actual situation. Therefore, for this type of experiment, in reality Environmental studies using live prey are necessary

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