Kai Wang, Pengfei Hou, Xuelin Xu, Yun Gao, Ming Chen, Binghua Lai, Fuyu An, Zhenyu Ren, Yongzheng Li, Guifeng Jia, Yan Hua
With declining populations in the wild, captive rescue and breeding have become one of the most important ways to protect pangolins from extinction. At present, the success rate of artificial breeding is low, due to the insufficient understanding of the breeding behavior characteristics of pangolins. The automatic recognition method based on machine vision not only monitors for 24 h but also reduces the stress response of pangolins. This paper aimed to establish a temporal relation and attention mechanism network (Pangolin breeding attention and transfer network, PBATn) to monitor and recognize pangolin behaviors, including breeding and daily behavior...
March 28, 2024: Animals: An Open Access Journal From MDPI