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Although animal-borne accelerometers are effective tools for quantifying the kinematics of animal behaviors, quantifying the burst movements of small and agile aquatic animals remains challenging. To capture the details of burst movements, accelerometers need to sample at a very high frequency, which will inevitably shorten the recording duration or increase the device size. To overcome this problem, we developed a high-frequency acceleration data-logger that can be triggered by a manually defined acceleration threshold, thus allowing the selective measurement of burst movements. We conducted experiments under laboratory and field conditions to examine the performance of the logger. The laboratory experiment using red seabream () showed that the new logger could measure the kinematics of their escape behaviors. The field experiment using free-swimming yellowtail kingfish () showed that the loggers trigger correctly. We suggest that this new logger can be applied to measure the burst movements of various small and agile animals.

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