Screening for sexual diversity in camera trap datasets for wildlife neuroscience studies

1. Screening for sexual diversity in
camera trap datasets for wildlife
neuroscience studies
Vic Shao-Chih Chiang 蔣紹志 (he/him/his)
June, 2023

2. My current approaches to studying sexual diversity
JF McLaughlin et al. SE Lipshutz (2023) Integr Comp Biol
Steroid-independent rodent
sexual behaviour
iPSCs-derived model for studying
human sexual diversity
Collective behaviour of African
cichlids relevant to lekking

3. Sexual diversity in the wild
JJ Falk, MS Webster, DR Rubenstein (2021) Curr Biol
LA Taylor, EC Powell, JJ
McGraw (2017) Plos One
K Hikida (2022)
Pan Afr News
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Hamadryad

4. Camera Traps commonly pick up sexual diversity in the wild, but…
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5. Deep Learning-based Pose Estimation Toolbox: DeepLabCut
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6. MegaDetector x DeepLabCut

7. Kruger National Park
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8. Snapshot Kruger camera trap dataset

9. Kruger National Park Fieldwork

10. Studying the brains of wildlife animals
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11. Camera Trap information helps with wildlife neuroscience studies:
Activity & Community
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12. Camera Trap information helps with wildlife neuroscience studies:
Occupancy & Density
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13. Camera Trap information helps with wildlife neuroscience studies:
Spatial Capture-Recapture
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14. Camera Trap information helps with wildlife neuroscience studies:
Preliminary analysis on Snapshot Kruger dataset

15. Next steps…
Run camera trap analyses relating
to a selected species
J Lauer et al. A Mathis
(2022) Nat Methods
T Gruber (2022) Method Ecol Evol
R Bischof et al. MA Nawaz
(2013) Methods Ecol Evol
Improve DeepLabCut Super
Animal quadruped model for
accurate pose estimation Incorporate an ethical &
welfare framework

16. Understanding the neuroscience of sexual diversity…
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17. Acknowledgements