The software was written to aid in a thesis about howler monkeys. It can save the researcher a significant amount of time, especially if AnimalTracker is used on a tablet PC or a Laptop. It transforms graphical positions into numerical vales which can be used in all kinds of calculations. The software was originally written for the MS Windows operating system. But one one of the development aims was to get this software running on Unixlike operating systems. The software runs on Windows OSs and on Linux variants. The used GUI Toolkit wxWindows is available for several other operating systems. AnimalTracker has not been testet with these. If AnimalTracker should be working under one of those OSs I would be interested in getting notified of it.
It transforms graphical positions into numerical data.
The positons can be entered and modified either graphically on a map or numerically in a table.
The behaviour for each scan can be recorded.
The application can calculate the distance between every animal per scan and the mean distance (arithmetic and median) per day.
Areas can be defined which constrain the distancecalculation to only certain areas of the map.
The distribution of the animals across the map can be calculated.
All the data can be exported as screenshots or tabular data to be used in other applications, for example spreadsheets.
The files are saved as XML files. They can be modified with a text editor or a separate program.