Microphone Backpacks for Individual-level Acoustic Recordings
Channel: MethodsEcolEvol
Date: 2017-04-06

Read the article: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/2041-210X.12610/abstract 

Microphone backpacks allow researchers to record the vocal behaviour of individual animals in naturalistic settings, even in acoustically challenging environments. In this video, Lisa Gill, Nico Adreani and Pietro D'Amelio demonstrate the lightweight radio-transmitter microphone backpacks that have been developed and built at the Max Planck Institute for Ornithology, Seewiesen, Department of Behavioural Neurobiology. Lisa, Nico and Pietro show in detail the attachment and setup of this system, evaluate its behavioural effects, and discuss what makes it so useful for studying vocal communication, especially in small animals.