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Actiwatch & Actical:  Animal Applications
The Easy Way to Measure Activity and Circadian Rhythms in any research animal: primates, dogs, cats,  sheep, pigs, cattle, etc...
Actical activity monitor provide an easy way to obtain, analyze and graph long-term data on the activity patterns of your multiply-housed or free-ranging research animals.

Changes in activity can be a useful indicator of an animal's response to food, drugs, pain, health or well-being or other conditions. It's also useful to study activity patterns relative to observed behavior and correlate the two. Future activity analysis can indicate with confidence what activities were taking place for a particular time and duration.

Changes in sleep patterns can also provide great insight into an animal's response to various inputs or mental health. Changes in nutrition, exercise, pain and state of mind all can affect sleep quality.

ACTICAL
  o  Track activity levels
  o  Track changes in activity  levels
  o  Determine circadian rhythms

  o  Drug response

  o  Behavior

  o  Monitor separation anxiety in pets

SPECIAL FEATURES:

  o Moisture protection (up to 1 meter for 30 minutes)

  o  Incorporates 64k non-volatile memory

  o Six-month battery life

  o User-replaceable protective cases with soft collars or  adapters for “Primate Products” collars

 

ACTICAL SOFTWARE FEATURES:

 -  ASCII text file data format for direct compatibility with databases and analysis programs

 -  Plotting and analysis of minute-by-minute to multi-day activity levels

-   Compatibility with Windows® 98, Millennium, NT 4.0, 2000 and XP

 -  User defined epoch length (for 15, 30 or 60 seconds)

 -  Recording daily distribution of activity in user defined epochs

 -   Documenting changes in activity patterns

 -  Automated analysis on a daily or hourly basis for the entire data set

 -  User-defined threshold analysis (for calculation of time spent at various activity levels)

Non-Invasive - No Surgeries Required
A new aluminum protective housing is available in two versions: one works with dog-style soft collars and the other version works with selected “Primate Products” collars for use with non-human primates. This housing works equally well with either our Actiwatch or Animal Actical product. Selected applications are pictured below:

Animal case mounted on soft collar

 

Primate Products Collars: Small (left) and Large

 

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