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Automatically Identifying Sickness Behavior in Grazing Lambs with an Acceleration Sensor

SIMPLE SUMMARY: Behavioral patterns of grazing lambs associated with sickness were evaluated using a model of infusion with the endotoxin lipopolysaccharide (LPS), which can lead to subclinical symptoms of disease. Acceleration sensors are validated to have the potential to identify behavioral patte...

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Autores principales: Fan, Bowen, Bryant, Racheal H., Greer, Andrew W.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: MDPI 2023
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10339910/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37443882
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ani13132086
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description SIMPLE SUMMARY: Behavioral patterns of grazing lambs associated with sickness were evaluated using a model of infusion with the endotoxin lipopolysaccharide (LPS), which can lead to subclinical symptoms of disease. Acceleration sensors are validated to have the potential to identify behavioral patterns of farm animals, which can indicate a deterioration in health. However, there is limited research on automatic identification of sickness behavior of grazing lambs. In the present study, the commercial ear-mounted CowManager SensOor (Agis, Harmelen, The Netherlands) was used to detect the changes in behavioral patterns of grazing lambs and showed promising potential for accurately identifying the sickness behavior of grazing lambs. ABSTRACT: Acute disease of grazing animals can lead to alterations in behavioral patterns. Relatively recent advances in accelerometer technology have resulted in commercial products, which can be used to remotely detect changes in animals’ behavior, the pattern and extent of which may provide an indicator of disease challenge and animal health status. The objective of this study was to determine if changes in behavior during use of a lipopolysaccharide (LPS) challenge model can be detected using ear-mounted accelerometers in grazing lambs. LPS infusion elevated rectal temperatures from 39.31 °C to 39.95 °C, indicating successful establishment of an acute fever response for comparison with groups (p < 0.001). For each of the five recorded behaviors, time spent eating, ruminating, not active, active, and highly active, the accelerometers were able to detect an effect of LPS challenge. Compared with the control, there were significant effects of LPS infusion by hour interaction on durations of eating (−6.71 min/h, p < 0.001), inactive behavior (+16.00 min/h, p < 0.001), active behavior (−8.39 min/h, p < 0.001), and highly active behavior (−2.90 min/h, p < 0.001) with a trend for rumination time (−1.41 min/h, p = 0.075) in lambs after a single LPS infusion. Results suggest that current sensors have the capability to correctly identify behaviors of grazing lambs, raising the possibility of detecting changes in animals’ health status.
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spelling pubmed-103399102023-07-14 Automatically Identifying Sickness Behavior in Grazing Lambs with an Acceleration Sensor Fan, Bowen Bryant, Racheal H. Greer, Andrew W. Animals (Basel) Article SIMPLE SUMMARY: Behavioral patterns of grazing lambs associated with sickness were evaluated using a model of infusion with the endotoxin lipopolysaccharide (LPS), which can lead to subclinical symptoms of disease. Acceleration sensors are validated to have the potential to identify behavioral patterns of farm animals, which can indicate a deterioration in health. However, there is limited research on automatic identification of sickness behavior of grazing lambs. In the present study, the commercial ear-mounted CowManager SensOor (Agis, Harmelen, The Netherlands) was used to detect the changes in behavioral patterns of grazing lambs and showed promising potential for accurately identifying the sickness behavior of grazing lambs. ABSTRACT: Acute disease of grazing animals can lead to alterations in behavioral patterns. Relatively recent advances in accelerometer technology have resulted in commercial products, which can be used to remotely detect changes in animals’ behavior, the pattern and extent of which may provide an indicator of disease challenge and animal health status. The objective of this study was to determine if changes in behavior during use of a lipopolysaccharide (LPS) challenge model can be detected using ear-mounted accelerometers in grazing lambs. LPS infusion elevated rectal temperatures from 39.31 °C to 39.95 °C, indicating successful establishment of an acute fever response for comparison with groups (p < 0.001). For each of the five recorded behaviors, time spent eating, ruminating, not active, active, and highly active, the accelerometers were able to detect an effect of LPS challenge. Compared with the control, there were significant effects of LPS infusion by hour interaction on durations of eating (−6.71 min/h, p < 0.001), inactive behavior (+16.00 min/h, p < 0.001), active behavior (−8.39 min/h, p < 0.001), and highly active behavior (−2.90 min/h, p < 0.001) with a trend for rumination time (−1.41 min/h, p = 0.075) in lambs after a single LPS infusion. Results suggest that current sensors have the capability to correctly identify behaviors of grazing lambs, raising the possibility of detecting changes in animals’ health status. MDPI 2023-06-23 /pmc/articles/PMC10339910/ /pubmed/37443882 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ani13132086 Text en © 2023 by the authors. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
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