How to use this Database

Please mail to ethology@omnh.jp, when you are not sure how to use this database after reading this page. Read FAQ carefully before asking us any questions (You may not recieve any reply when information has been available in FAQ)

1) Browsing movies

2) Searching

3) Submitting movies

4) Secondary use of movies

In top page, you see three movies submitted recently. Click title of movies. You will read detailed information (author(s), shot day, name of species, keyword, explanation text, references, movie no. etc.) of each data. To watch movies, click thumbnails.

Some movies start playing after completion of download. It may take time to download large file (depending on the bandwidth of your network and traffic on our server). Please wait for a while.

Use search system to browse. You see input box for keyword search in right column. Hierarchical search and full-text search are also available. You can access via links listed below.

Keyword search

You can enter keyword (up to 3) to search in title, species name, keyword, movie no. Keywords are combined with "OR"/"AND". Priority lies in "AND".

Hierarchical Search

All named organisms on the earth are classified hierarchically, such as kingdom, phylum, class, order, family, and genus (from higher to lower level). In hierarchical search, you will select the level of hierarchy, then you can see all data of species belonging to selected level. When you click hierarchical search in menu listed below, you will see the word 'Animalia' in right column. Click this, and you will see names of several phylum, such as Arthropoda or Cordata. You can go up and down in hierarchy by clicking each item. When you reach the level that you want to see, click the Show button.

In these search methods, thumbnails and titles of movies are displayed as results. Click of each item brings you to the pages with detailed data, but appearance will differ slightly. Movies are embedded in the page, if you click thumbnails. When you only want to see attached text data other than movie, you should click titles.

Full-text search

Full-text search targets any words in explanationary text by namazu. Please see here for detail of namazu. Results will show the links to each data.

1. Firstly, you should become a member of this site. Click a link named 'Submit' indicated below. You will see a link to 'Member Registration' in right column. Please register your name, e-mail address, preferred password, etc.
2. After successful registration, click a link named 'Submit Movies'. Here, you should input your e-mail address and password that you have registered.
3. Please read Terms of Service carefully . If you agree it, click 'Agree'.
4. Upload your movie. Quicktime or MPEG file with maximum size of 100MB can be uploaded. Please add files with appropriate suffix, such as .mov or .mpg. Larger file (> 100 MB) can be submitted via FTP or removable disk. Please contatct us (ethology@omnh.jp) before submission.
5. You should input title, author(s) name, species name, commentary text and other information about the movie.
6. Proceed to confirmation page. If you find no problem, then submit data.

7. Input taxonomic information about the subject species in the movie.
8. Add thumbnail. If you don't have your own thumbnail, the database will select an appropriate scene from the movie.

You can use movies freely for education or scientific research, but copyrights of all movies are kept by author(s). Please indicate the name of author, Data No, and that movies come from 'Movie Archives of Animal Behavior'. Don't use them for commercial purpose without permission. You should consult Terms of Service for more detail. Please read FAQ also.