MonkeyTrail: A scalable video-based method for tracking macaque movement trajectory in daily living cages.

Behavioral analysis of macaques provides important experimental evidence in the field of neuroscience. In recent years, video-based automatic animal behavior analysis has received widespread attention. However, methods capable of extracting and analyzing daily movement trajectories of macaques in their daily living cages remain underdeveloped, with previous approaches usually requiring specific environments to reduce interference from occlusion or environmental change.

[Detection of tick and tick-borne pathogen in some ports of Inner Mongolia].

Objective: To investigate the distribution, composition and situation of natural infection pathogen of tick species in the main ports of Inner Mongolia.

Methods: All ticks were collected manually with white cloth, from the grassland and searching for the hosts followed by detection of pathogens, with PCR.

Results: 1313 ticks identified, belonged to 1 family, 4 geniuses and 7 species in the three surveyed areas, with Dermacentor nuttallia distributed in the Ceke, Mandula and Manzhouli bordering ports.