GA-aquarium-whale-sharks

Summary

This repository contains the processed tabular data and code required to generate all main figures from the 2008-2012 longitudinal Georgia Aquarium whale shark study by Gallimore et al., 2024.

Citation

Gallimore C. G.*, Walton C.*, Nugent R., Fradkin M., Poppell L., Schreiber C., Coco C., Grober M., Carlson B., Dove A. D. M., Black M. P. (2024). 
  A longitudinal behavioral analysis of aquarium whale sharks (Rhincodon typus): insights into individual variation, social hierarchy, and anticipatory cues. 
  Frontiers in Marine Science, 11, 1418002. doi: 10.3389/fmars.2024.1418002 

Description

The \DATA folder contains the master datasheet common across all main figure scripts. Supplementary or otherwise targeted datasets can be found in the specific folders with the script that uses them. The \functions folder contains all separate functions used by the main figure scripts. The LICENSES.txt file lists open-source code by others that were used in, but not custom-written for, this work.

Requirements

All analyses were performed with MATLAB version 9.13 (R2022b) and utilized the following toolboxes and version no.:

1. Statistics and Machine Learning Toolbox 12.4
2. Signal Processing Toolbox 9.1
3. Image Processing Toolbox 11.6
4. Curve Fitting Toolbox 3.8
5. Aerospace Toolbox 4.3