Punch is a Japanese macaque at Ichikawa City Zoo who went viral carrying a stuffed orangutan around. We used him as a test case for LabGym - and the results were surprisingly clean.

We used the AI-powered tool LabGym to analyze the behavior of Punch 🐒—a Japanese macaque at Ichikawa City Zoo who recently became a social media sensation. (Original video source: @JapanZooStory YouTube Channel) #Punch #PunchTheMonkey #AnimalVideo #labgymbeh @OpenBehavior @UMLifeSciences

📚🛠️ New on the LabGym site, the Resources page centralizes our assistant agent, guides, tutorials, and more to help users get started with video-based behavioral analysis workflows. Explore: labgym.org/resources

🧠📘 As part of the newly released LabGym site, the About LabGym page explains why LabGym was built and outlines key capabilities for supervised, user-defined behavior identification from video data. Learn more: labgym.org/about

🧠🏡Following the recent LabGym site release, I’ll be highlighting newly introduced pages that clarify LabGym's goals, methods, and use. The homepage introduces LabGym, an AI-driven tool for identifying quantifying user-defined behaviors from video data: labgym.org

 LabGym website is live! Visit labgym.org to explore LabGym’s features, tutorials, documentation, publications, and community resources for AI-powered behavioral analysis across species. Huge thanks to @btoml for designing and building the website!  

🧵 I’m excited to announce that the 2025 LabGym Symposium & Tutorial will be held online via Zoom on Friday, August 22, 2025. Don’t miss this opportunity to learn about cutting-edge AI-based behavioral analysis! lsi.umich.edu/events/2025-08… 1/