Biologging data of captive red deer, Prague, Czechia, June-November 2023

https://doi.org/10.5285/e7fdf789-e663-4422-92c2-ea8019b3cc26

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This dataset contains biologging data of captive red deer Cervus elaphus, to study sleep behaviour. This includes acceleration (m/s2), magnetometer (gauss), and temperature (degrees Celsius) measurements, collected using collar-mounted accelerometer and magnetometer recorders at 20Hz.

This data was collected from 18 adult individuals; 13 male, 5 female, in 2023 over three deployments. Deployment 1 (males) 13/06/23 – 1/8/23; deployment 2 (males) 04/09/23 – 08/11/23; deployment 3 (females) 13/11/23 – 21/11/23. Deer were housed at the VUZV facility, Uhrineves, Prague, Czech Republic.

This dataset was funded by NERC, as part of project “NE/X010368/1: Sleep in the landscape of fear” and was measured to aid in the creation of a classification model to detect sleep in red deer from collar accelerometers, as well as to test arousal thresholds in sleeping deer.

Publication date: 2025-08-07

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Study area

Spatial representation type

Tabular (text)

Spatial reference system

WGS 84

Temporal information

Temporal extent

2023-06-01 to 2023-11-30

Temporal resolution

1 second

Provenance & quality

Biologgers were calibrated immediately prior to deployment. Deer were manipulated in a standard farm handling crush and were not immobilised for deployment. Biologgers were recovered in the same manner.

Data was downloaded directly from the Daily Diary logger units and stored in raw format. Data has been transformed into .txt format for reusability across different software. No other processing has taken place, other than screening for device failures, which have been removed from the dataset.

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This dataset is available under the terms of the Open Government Licence

Cite this dataset as:

Mortlock, E.; Esattore, B.; Bartoš, L.; Lyamin, O.; Ježek, M.; Capellini, I. (2025). Biologging data of captive red deer, Prague, Czechia, June-November 2023. NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre. https://doi.org/10.5285/e7fdf789-e663-4422-92c2-ea8019b3cc26

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