Discovery Projects - Grant ID: DP170102370

Funding Activity

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http://dataportal.arc.gov.au/NCGP/Web/Grant/Grant/DP170102370

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Active

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Funded Activity Summary

Quantifying environmental constraints on animal behaviour. This project aims to determine how habitat structure, weather and motion vision influence animal behaviour. Motion vision controls locomotion, foraging, evading predators and communicating. However, information on the conditions for motion vision in natural environments is limited. To address this, this project will combine field techniques with tools from 3D animation and computer vision. The project will focus on Australia’s dragon lizards, and place their motion displays in a visual-ecological context. The expected outcome is a more complete picture of the signalling context, which could advance sensory ecology, vision science and animal behaviour, with practical applications in artificial intelligence and derived benefits for education and community engagement in biology.

Funded Activity Details

Start Date: 01-01-2017

End Date: 31-12-2022

Funding Scheme: Discovery Projects

Funding Amount: $333,339.00

Funder: Australian Research Council

Research Topics

ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)

Zoology | Animal Behaviour | Behavioural Ecology

ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)

Expanding Knowledge in the Biological Sciences |

Other Keywords

Animal Behaviour | Behavioural Ecology | Expanding Knowledge in the Biological Sciences | Zoology

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