Unknown in Nest

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Overview and Meaning

When an unknown behavior occurs within the nest, it is useful to distinguish this as Unknown in Nest, particularly when nestbuilding or nest use are of interest to the research question. 

Description

The animal is inside the nest, and completely or partially out of sight. However, movement is visible, indicating some behavior is being performed within the nest.

Unknown in Nest can be distinguished as follows:

  1. Unknown in Nest is distinguished from fluffing, which is typically unseen due to insufficient camera angles, in that the nest is not growing and the behavior does not come after the sequence of nest building.
  2. Unknown in Nest is distinguished from inactive in nest because movement is present in the nest.

Classification

Unknown Behaviors

Contexts

None

Variants

None

Unknown in nest is part of

Unknown Behaviors

Unknown behaviors include:

  1. Unknown
  2. Unknown in nest

Unknown behaviors are a top-level classification. The categories of the Mouse Ethogram are:

  1. Active Behaviors
  2. Inactive Behaviors
  3. Unknown Behaviors
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