Underlying data - The SnackerTracker: A novel home-cage monitoring device for measuring food-intake and food-seeking behaviour in mice

Accurately measuring activity and feeding is frequently important in laboratory animal research, whether for welfare-monitoring or experimental recording. Quantification commonly involves manual pellet-weighing; however, this can physically disturb animals and cannot continuously assess both the amount and pattern of feeding. Improved means of food-intake measurement have been developed yet are often costly and incompatible with cage configurations. We therefore developed and validated the SnackerTracker—a cost-effective, open-source, and user-friendly measurement system which continuously records food-intake, food-seeking activity, and ambient light conditions in the home-cages of small laboratory animals.<br>This package contains underlying data for the original submission for publication - <i>The SnackerTracker: A Novel Home-Cage Monitoring Device for Measuring Food-Intake and Food-Seeking Behaviour in Small Laboratory Animals</i>

在实验室动物研究中，准确测量动物的活动与摄食情况往往至关重要，无论是用于福利监测还是实验记录。量化通常涉及人工颗粒称重；然而，这种方法会对动物造成物理干扰，且无法持续评估摄食量与摄食模式。虽已开发出改进的摄食量测量方法，但这些方法往往成本高昂，且与笼具配置不兼容。因此，我们开发并验证了SnackerTracker——这是一款经济高效、开源且用户友好的测量系统，可在小型实验动物的饲养笼中持续记录摄食量、寻食行为及环境光照条件。<br>本数据包包含原始投稿论文的基础数据——<i>SnackerTracker：一种用于测量小型实验动物摄食与寻食行为的新型饲养笼监测装置</i>