data network for automatic monitoring of voluntary behavior of individual animals in a group of animals

摘要

This invention relates to a data network for the automatic monitoring of voluntary behaviors of individual animals within a group of animals. each of the individual animals (1) of the animal group has a data network node (3). at a location from which an animal (1), in the course of a behavior to be monitored, preferably approaches, another node (8) is installed. In the event that this animal (1) approaches this node (8), communication takes place between the nodes (3, 8), during which a node is identified by the other nodes and communicated to a data processing system. central that the two nodes (3, 8) came into contact. The communication between the two nodes (3, 8) takes place by means of the transmission of electrical signals in a closed circuit of electric alternating current which, among other things, also runs through the animal's body (1) as an electrical conductor.