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Animal Behavior Lab
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The lab studies the adaptive strategies of wild animals by attaching recording devices to marine birds and mammals.
AboutAbout the lab
Exploring the adaptive strategies of wild animals through biologging and fieldwork.
The Animal Behavior Lab studies the adaptive strategies of wild animals through biologging and fieldwork.
Its main study subjects are marine birds and mammals, and the lab also conducts behavioral observation and physiological experiments.
The lab records GPS positions, video, acceleration, and other data, and also analyzes animal behavior with mathematical models.
By bringing together and integrating different areas of expertise, namely ethology, physics, and informatics, the lab carries out its research in close collaboration.
Key terms
- Biologging
- A method of attaching small recording devices to animals to record data on their behavior and surrounding environment
- Adaptive strategy
- The behaviors and traits that living things adopt in response to their environment in order to survive and leave offspring
- Mathematical model
- A representation of how a phenomenon works in mathematical equations, which can be used to make predictions and test ideas through calculation
ResearchResearch themes
With elucidating the adaptive strategies of wild animals as a shared goal and biologging as a shared core technology, the lab conducts its research. Using recording devices attached to animals, it records GPS positions, video, speed, acceleration, temperature, neural activity, and more, and reconstructs the behavior of animals in the sea and on land.
*Illustrative imageForaging and Flight Routes of Streaked Shearwaters
At breeding colonies across Japan, the lab attaches GPS devices to streaked shearwaters, a seabird, and investigates their foraging strategies and the mechanisms by which they decide their flight routes.
*Illustrative imagePhysiology of Wild Animals
The lab measures the metabolic rates of wild animals and estimates how they use energy, as well as the activity of their brain and nervous system and autonomic nervous system.
*Illustrative imageForaging of Black-tailed Gulls and Human Activity
The lab attaches GPS devices and video cameras to black-tailed gulls in Aomori Prefecture and investigates their foraging strategies and their relationship with human activity.
*Illustrative imageExplaining Movement Paths with Physical Laws
The lab conducts research that explains the macroscopic movement paths animals follow on the basis of microscopic physical laws.
MembersFaculty
The members of the Animal Behavior Lab are faculty, postdoctoral researchers, doctoral, master's, and undergraduate students, and a secretary.As of 2026
- ProfessorKen Yoda
- Associate ProfessorYusuke Goto
- Project Assistant ProfessorSota Inoue
- Project Assistant ProfessorRyoma Otsuka
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The top and research theme images are illustrative and were not taken at the lab. They are cropped from Wikimedia Commons images. Cropped CC BY-SA images are provided under the same CC BY-SA license as the original (version shown on each line).
- Top image: “Seabirds LC0141” Jörg Hempel / CC BY-SA 2.0 de (cropped)
- Foraging and Flight Routes of Streaked Shearwaters: “Humpback Whale and shearwaters feeding in southern California” Laura (Laney) White (USGS Western Ecological Research Center) / Public domain (cropped)
- Physiology of Wild Animals: “CC - Cape fur seal colony beside the Atlantic Ocean at Cape Cross, Namibia, 2007” Josep M. Gracia / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
- Foraging of Black-tailed Gulls and Human Activity: “Black-tailed gull” me, Bamse / CC BY-SA 3.0 (cropped)
- Explaining Movement Paths with Physical Laws: “A Green Bee-Eater in Flight ( )” Hari K Patibanda / CC BY 2.0 (cropped)
- Related lab (Behavioral Ecology Lab): “Seabird colony nests on the Oregon Coast ( )” BLM Oregon & Washington / Public domain (cropped)
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- Related lab (Global Water Cycle Science Division, Oceanography Lab): “Infrared satellite image from the Pacífic Ocean” GOES Satellites / Public domain (cropped)
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