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In this video snippet, you can see two gerbils performing the Sensory Island Task.

Tracking of the animals identities is stable through unrestricted movement, evidenced by the colored snout tracking point.

Spectrograms below show the raw (bottom) and the assigned (top) vocalizations to each animal.

Assigned vocalizations are depicted by blobs on the animals' snouts. They are also downsampled so we can hear them.

This is possible by our custom-made analysis pipeline combining cutting-edge machine-learning and deep-neural-network algorithms to quantify animal identity and body posture (SLEAP; Pereira et al., 2022), locomotion patterns (simBA; Goodwin et al., 2024), vocalisation segmentation (DAS; Steinfath et al., 2021) and assignment to the emitting animal (USVCAM; Matsumoto et al., 2022).