It describes an ear tag for livestock including: a plastic substrate including means to apply the ear tag to an ear of an animal; an UHF inlay coupled to a flexible flat portion of the plastic substrate, the UHF inlay including a substrate, an antenna on the substrate and a microchip connected to the antenna. The ear tag includes a plastic film; a predetermined portion of the plastic film is laminated on the plastic substrate and forms a closed pocket; the UHF inlay is enclosed in the pocket and is at least in part movable independently from the plastic substrate and the plastic film in the pocket.

A system for location of animals and/or objects in an environment includes a signal processing and signal generation system consisting of electromagnetic tags on animals (or other objects) in an environment (typically a three dimension outdoor natural environment) where the animals or objects are physically present at arbitrary locations, and an electro-magnetic signal generating, signal receiving, and signal processing system that can move through or in relation to the environment. The system can compute the location and identity of the animals or objects based on signals received from their associated tags, including the calculated location of the ID tags, which function as “Reader-Locators.” The calculated location is enhanced by information about the environment provided by maps, satellite photos, GPS, GIS and/or other data specific to the probability of the location of the animals or objects within certain regions of the environment. The system includes a physical and electromagnetic modeling operation that is interactive with the environmental information derived from the actual environment, either historically or in “real-time” as the monitoring process occurs.

A mounting component and an adapting component provide a plurality of configurations of an adapting and mounting system for attaching a species-selective feed nozzle to a variety of animal feeders.

The present invention relates generally to the field of animal garments. More specifically, the present invention relates to an animal bodysuit or garment having a central portion, leg and tail portions, hood and at least one boot. The bodysuit or covering is designed to be worn on the body of an animal to collect any hair or pet dander shed by the animal by covering the head, tail, and legs of the animal. The covering also has at least one boot that can be worn on the feet or paws of the animal. The bodysuit or covering has at least one pocket. In addition, the bodysuit, garment or covering may have a pocket or flap below the tail and on the underside of the bodysuit to allow the animal to defecate and/or urinate while wearing the bodysuit.

The present invention relates generally to the field of animal garments. More specifically, the present invention relates to an animal bodysuit or garment having a central portion, leg and tail portions, hood and at least one boot. The bodysuit or covering is designed to be worn on the body of an animal to collect any hair or pet dander shed by the animal by covering the head, tail, and legs of the animal. The covering also has at least one boot that can be worn on the feet or paws of the animal. The bodysuit or covering has at least one pocket. In addition, the bodysuit, garment or covering may have a pocket or flap below the tail and on the underside of the bodysuit to allow the animal to defecate and/or urinate while wearing the bodysuit.

An agility course for use with an animal can include an obstacle, and a sensor configured to detect when the animal has traversed the obstacle. A method of training an animal can include positioning an obstacle unit and a dispenser unit so that a wireless signal can be transmitted from the obstacle unit to the dispenser unit, and transmitting the wireless signal in response to the animal traversing an obstacle of the obstacle unit.

The invention relates to a computer-implemented method of tracking animals is provided. Such a method typically includes recognizing, by using at least one data processor, individual animals in images of a plurality of the animals; and tracking the animals using a probabilistic tracking-by-detection process. In another aspect, a system for recognizing animals is provided. Such a system typically includes an instance detection and part localization module; a visual marker classification module; a fixed-cardinality track interpolation module; and a maximum a posteriori estimation of animal identity module.

The invention relates to an isotopic identification method making it possible, where appropriate, to link a livestock animal or animal product to a specific farm, or a plant or a plant product to a farm, by analyzing the concentration of ratios or stable isotopes, and comparing with isotopic codes previously generated in a unique fashion for a set of frames. The invention also relates to a method which makes it possible to impose a unique code on the animals of a farm or on the plants of a farm, a computer making it possible to store the unique codes generated in memory, to generate unique codes for new farms and to perform comparisons.

The invention relates to an isotopic identification method making it possible, where appropriate, to link a livestock animal or animal product to a specific farm, or a plant or a plant product to a farm, by analyzing the concentration of ratios or stable isotopes, and comparing with isotopic codes previously generated in a unique fashion for a set of frames. The invention also relates to a method which makes it possible to impose a unique code on the animals of a farm or on the plants of a farm, a computer making it possible to store the unique codes generated in memory, to generate unique codes for new farms and to perform comparisons.

A sensor device, monitoring device, and method for automatically matching the sensor device attached to an animal with an ID tag attached to the animal, wherein the monitoring device receives information related to the ID tag from an ID reader device and receives sensor device information from the sensor device, where the sensor device information includes a sensor device identity information and an indication that transmission of the sensor device information from the sensor device was triggered by an ID reader device, the ID tag and the sensor device being determined to be attached to the same animal based on time information associated with the information related to the ID tag and the sensor device information.