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Tri-axial accelerometers tease apart discrete behaviours in the common cuttlefish Sepia officinalis

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  26 November 2012

G.N. Lyons ,
E.C. Pope ,
B. Kostka ,
R.P. Wilson ,
Z. Dobrajc  and
J.D.R. Houghton
G.N. Lyons*
Affiliation:
School of Biological Sciences, Queen's University Belfast, County Antrim BT9 7BL, UK Queen's University Belfast Marine Laboratory, Portaferry, County Down BT22 1PF, UK
E.C. Pope
Affiliation:
Department of Biosciences, College of Science, Swansea University, Swansea SA2 8PP, UK Centre for Sustainable Aquatic Research, Department of Biosciences, College of Science, Swansea University, Swansea SA2 8PP, UK
B. Kostka
Affiliation:
School of Biological Sciences, Queen's University Belfast, County Antrim BT9 7BL, UK
R.P. Wilson
Affiliation:
Department of Biosciences, College of Science, Swansea University, Swansea SA2 8PP, UK
Z. Dobrajc
Affiliation:
National Institute of Biology, Marine Biology Station Piran, Fornace 41, 6330 Piran, Slovenia
J.D.R. Houghton
Affiliation:
School of Biological Sciences, Queen's University Belfast, County Antrim BT9 7BL, UK Queen's University Belfast Marine Laboratory, Portaferry, County Down BT22 1PF, UK
*
Correspondence should be addressed to: G.N. Lyons, School of Biological Sciences, Queen's University Belfast, County Antrim BT9 7BL, UK Email: glyons04@qub.ac.uk
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Abstract

Acceleration data loggers can be used to construct time–energy budgets or identify specific behaviours in free living animals. Within a marine context such devices have been largely deployed on vertebrates with comparatively little attention paid to commercially important invertebrates such as cephalopod molluscs. Here we tested the utility of tri-axial accelerometers to tease apart six discrete behaviours in the common cuttlefish Sepia officinalis. By considering depth profiles in conjunction with body pitch and roll and overall dynamic body acceleration we were able to make distinctions between resting at the seabed, active swimming, mating, post-coital panting and active manoeuvring along the seabed.

Keywords

cephalopodtri-axial accelerometerbehaviouroverall dynamic body accelerationdata loggers
Type
Research Article
Information
Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom , Volume 93 , Issue 5 , August 2013 , pp. 1389 - 1392
Copyright
Copyright © Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom 2012 

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