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Scott W Wolf¹, Dee M Ruttenberg¹, Daniel Y Knapp²

¹Lewis-Sigler Institute for Integrative Genomics, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey, USA.

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Computational ethology advances allow detailed behavior tracking. NAPS (ArUco Plus SLEAP) is a new hybrid framework combining pose estimation and identity tracking for social animals like bumblebees.

Keywords:

behavioural tracking ethology hybrid tracking pose estimation social networks tag-based tracking

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Area of Science:

Computational ethology
Animal behavior analysis
Social network dynamics

Background:

Quantifying animal behavior has advanced significantly with computational ethology.
Tracking individuals within social groups remains a challenge, often sacrificing pose detail for identity retention, or vice versa.

Purpose of the Study:

To develop a hybrid tracking framework, NAPS (ArUco Plus SLEAP), that accurately captures fine-grained behaviors while maintaining individual identity in social groups.
To enable detailed investigation of social dynamics and individual behavioral variation within a group setting.

Main Methods:

NAPS integrates deep learning-based pose estimation (SLEAP) with unique markers (ArUco) for robust identity persistence.
The framework was applied to study the social dynamics of the common eastern bumblebee (*Bombus impatiens*).

Main Results:

NAPS successfully captures finely resolved behaviors and maintains individual identity over time.
The framework scales to long-duration, high-frame-rate experiments, facilitating detailed behavioral variation analysis within groups.
Demonstrated application in analyzing the social dynamics of *Bombus impatiens*.

Conclusions:

NAPS provides a crucial tool for advancing the study of social group behavior and network dynamics.
This framework enables the collection of critical data for understanding how individual behavioral variations influence collective dynamics in social species.