The Anas platyrhynchos behavior will be characterized according to an ethogram developed using elements from Mason (2013) and Welsh (2017). The nine behaviors are: (1) locomotion on land (walking); (2) locomotion on water (swimming); (3) locomotion in air (flying); (4) resting/comfort on land (sleeping, loafing, body maintenance); (5) resting/comfort on water (sleeping, loafing, body maintenance); (6) feeding in water (7) feeding on land (8) alert (cessation of activities, upright posture) (9) aggression (chasing, pecking, other aggressive behavior). At their assigned time, every day for the two week period of April 7, 2019 to April 21, 2019, each group will stand at the minuteman statue on the west side of the pond and capture a 10 second video in landscape mode using a long range video camera borrowed from the DuBois Library. The frame of view will continuously shift while capturing the video so a 180 degree view of the campus pond is obtained. The groups will watch the video and assign one of the behaviors above to each Anas platyrhynchos present in the video.
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