Small animal operant conditioning system 80008

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DETAILS A programmable operant feeding station that allows manipulation of food availability and collection of individual automated fine monitoring of weight and cognitive data from RFID-tagged birds housed in ecologically valid conditions. The system was displayed at the UWAF meeting, Newcastle upon Tyne, England. Visit the UFAW website for more information. Multi-Display Pecking Key The system takes advantage of the Model 80130 Multi-Display Pecking Key. This pecking key can be used for pigeons, primates, or rodents. The response key is designed to trigger a durable (100,000 activation life) microswitch with as little as 0.6 mm of movement and 50 cN of force. The Key boasts a sixteen LED array that can display any of 16 shapes in 8 different colors. The eight colors are: Orange, Red, Green, Yellow, Blue, Lilac, Turquoise, and White. The standard shapes are a cross, forward slash, back slash, square, circle, small dot, vertical bar, horizontal bar, and all on.