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Marine Wildlife Behavior Database
Metadata
This section includes fields that provide background on the subject animal(s) being targeted in the study. It should be noted that the Modeling Group/Guild list was originally developed by the OBIS-SEAMAP project at Duke University (Read et al., 2007) but expanded by AIM modeling (Frankel et al., 2002) and that internet access is necessary to obtain the Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS) Taxonomic Serial Number (TSN) for a species (http://www.itis.gov/).
- Modeling Group/Guild
ID_ModelingGroupGuild: What modeling group or guild does the studied species belong to?
- Blue whale
- Fin whale
- Bryde's/sei whale
- Gray whale
- Minke whale
- Humpback whale
- Right whale
- Bowhead whale
- Beaked whale
- Beluga whale
- Common dolphin
- Dall's porpoise
- Fraser's dolphin
- Harbor porpoise
- Killer whale
- Kogia
- Lagenorhynchus albirostris
- Lagenorhynchus acutus
- Lagenorhynchus obliquidens
- Pilot whale
- Risso's dolphin
- Stenella attenuata
- Stenella frontalis
- Steno bredanensis
- Sperm whale
- Stenella/Lagenodelphis
- Tursiops truncatus, inshore
- Tursiops truncatus, offshore
- Unidentified cetacean
- Harbor seal
- Northern fur seal
- California sea lion
- Steller sea lion
- Pacific walrus
- Bearded seal
- Pagophilic Phocidae (ribbon, ringed, spotted, hooded, harp seals)
- ITIS TSN
ID_ITIS_TSN: Integrated Taxonomic Information System Taxonomic Serial Number (http://www.itis.gov/). Must search for the species of interest, click on the species report, and underneath the header name will be the TSN.
- Common Name
ID_CommonName: Common or vernacular English name used in the ITIS Database
- Scientific Name
ID_ScientificName: Scientific name
- Behavioral State:
ID_BehState: The overall behavior in which the animal(s) is involved, select all applicable states from the following picklist (data on each behavior state should be included in individual rows in the database):
- Foraging
- Migrating
- Traveling
- Milling
- Calving
- Sexual displaying
- Socializing
- Playing
- Surface active
- Diving in bouts
- Swimming between bouts
- Resting at the surface
- Probability of Occurrence of this Behavior
ID_ProbabilityBehState: What percentage of the time does the animal exhibit this behavioral state; over a given time period (define that time period: day, week, month, year, etc.), what is the length of time the animal may be involved in this behavior.
- Does the animal dive to a feature?
ID_AnimalDiveFeature: Select response from the following picklist, either identifying the feature or saying "none" (i.e., doesn't dive to a feature):
- Bottom
- Prey
- Temperature
- Light level
- None
- Where was the feature located in this study?
ID_WhereFeature: This is a free form field that allows the user to give the location of the feature to the animals were diving to in this study as a distance in meters relative to either the sea surface or the sea bottom (e.g., 10 m off the sea floor, or 50 m from the sea surface). This is not meant to be a summary characterization of the prey field, for example, for this species for all eternity.
- Sex
ID_Sex: Sex of the subject animal, if known (M/F). If not known, enter "N/A"
- Age
ID_Age: Age of the subject animal in years, if known. If not known, enter "N/A"
- Age Class
ID_AgeClass: Age class of the subject, selected from the following picklist. If not known, enter "N/A"
- Adult
- Sub-adult
- Juvenile
- Pup/calf
- Was there more than 1 animal in the group?
ID_>1Animal: Yes / No response
- Group Composition
ID_GroupComp(sex;age;size): What characteristic sex, age class, or number of individuals was the group composed of? This is a free form entry in the following format: "known sex characteristics; known age characteristics; known group size". For any unknown group characteristics, enter N/A (e.g., if nothing known about group, would enter: "N/A; N/A; N/A"). If the animal was observed by itself, the group size would be 1.
- Comments
ID_Comments: Free form field to note complications with data entry, information to review at a later date, etc.
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