She's a Scientist: Haley Beer

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03/26/2021 Added

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An animal science graduate student uses video cameras to monitor the health and behavior of captive cheetahs.

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[00:00:00.405](soft music)
[00:00:02.930]10-year-old Bella likes to be alone.
[00:00:05.550]Cheetahs are solitary animals, but cameras help zoo keepers
[00:00:09.970]watch out for her safety.
[00:00:11.700]These are the cameras that we installed
[00:00:15.190]in six different enclosures, three inside
[00:00:17.830]and three in the outdoor enclosures.
[00:00:20.090]University of Nebraska-Lincoln graduate student
[00:00:22.630]Haley Beer installed the cameras as part of her research
[00:00:25.920]in collaboration with the Lincoln Children's Zoo.
[00:00:29.570]Using special software, Beer will analyze
[00:00:32.580]and study the behavior of the four cheetahs at the zoo.
[00:00:36.200]Our overall goal for this project is to be able
[00:00:39.390]to detect their normal behavior,
[00:00:42.450]what they do every single day.
[00:00:44.330]The software has the ability to be able to detect deviations
[00:00:49.200]from this normal behavior, a typical behavior.
[00:00:52.250]Cheetahs behave differently around humans.
[00:00:54.680]So the camera and software system will help zookeepers
[00:00:57.560]catch illness earlier and better understand animal behavior.
[00:01:01.740]By observing them 24 hours a day, seven days a week
[00:01:04.760]and being able to learn what's normal,
[00:01:06.570]number one, it tells us a lot about the personalities
[00:01:08.810]of our cats that we otherwise wouldn't get to have,
[00:01:11.220]but also we hope to translate this technology
[00:01:13.450]and be able to use it in giraffe,
[00:01:15.500]in tiger and another species
[00:01:17.390]and then we can improve the welfare
[00:01:18.900]of many, many species that we have here at the zoo
[00:01:21.470]rather than just one.
[00:01:22.680](pigs grunt)
[00:01:25.170]The system was originally developed
[00:01:27.190]to monitor livestock.
[00:01:28.840]The technology recognizes and follows individual animals
[00:01:32.690]like the pigs in this video.
[00:01:34.930]Beer developed her love of wildlife as a zookeeper.
[00:01:38.170]As a master's student, she traveled to South Africa to help
[00:01:41.160]with research into stress and giraffe.
[00:01:43.920]She says her current research with cheetahs
[00:01:46.520]is just the beginning.
[00:01:48.300]I think eventually we'd be able
[00:01:49.890]to learn an astounding amount of information
[00:01:52.800]that we can't see just by our naked eye
[00:01:55.960]and I think that it will be useful for all species
[00:02:00.430]and I'm really excited to see
[00:02:02.420]where this will go in the future.
[00:02:04.831](soft music)

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