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# Quickstart

The fastest way to explore the GUI: use the desktop/Start Menu shortcut, or launch from the terminal:

```bash
ethograph launch
```

Then click **Select templates** in the I/O widget, pick a dataset, and click **Load**.

![Template dataset selection](../media/datasets.png)

Template datasets come with pre-loaded video, features, and labels so you can immediately try navigation, labeling, and visualization without preparing any data.

## Template datasets

The following datasets are available as templates. Full conversion scripts are in the `examples/` folder.

**Tool-using crows** — Learned precision tool use in carrion crows. Two trials with video, 3D pose (DeepLabCut), kinematics, and video features.

> Moll, F. W., Würzler, J., & Nieder, A. (2025). Learned precision tool use in carrion crows. *Current Biology*, 35(19), 4845–4852.e3. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2025.08.033

**Tool-using mice** — Behaviour recognition for mice solving mechanical puzzle lockboxes. Six trials with multi-camera video and pose.

> Reiske, P., Boon, M. N., Andresen, N., Traverso, S., Hohlbaum, K., Lewejohann, L., Thöne-Reineke, C., Hellwich, O., & Sprekeler, H. (2025). Mouse Lockbox Dataset: Behavior Recognition for Mice Solving Lockboxes (arXiv:2505.15408). arXiv. https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2505.15408

**Social rats** — Multi-animal 3D pose dataset of dyadic interactions in laboratory rats. Six cameras, chunked into trials.

> Marshall, J., Klibaite, U., Gellis, A., Aldarondo, D., Olveczky, B., & Dunn, T. W. (2021). The PAIR-R24M Dataset for Multi-animal 3D Pose Estimation. *Proceedings of the Neural Information Processing Systems Track on Datasets and Benchmarks*, 1. https://datasets-benchmarks-proceedings.neurips.cc/paper/2021/hash/1ff8a7b5dc7a7d1f0ed65aaa29c04b1e-Abstract-round1.html

**Flying & singing zebra finches** — Multimodal dataset of zebra finch groups with synchronized video, microphone arrays, and backpack-mounted accelerometers.

> Rüttimann, L., Wang, Y., Rychen, J., Tomka, T., Hörster, H., & Hahnloser, R. H. R. (2025). Multimodal system for recording individual-level behaviors in songbird groups. *PeerJ*, 13, e20203. https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.20203

**Cricket stridulation** — Sound production in *Pholidoptera littoralis* with synchronized video, audio, and DeepLabCut pose.