[Babase] New Food Code

Leah Gerber lgerber at duke.edu
Sat Jul 1 13:41:50 EDT 2006


It is fine if we do not list the code as a new foodcode but if the team 
uses the code in the the data it  will come back as a conversion error. 
We have to take out the foodcode if it is not going to be added to the 
list.  I will check the data and see.

Leah
 
Catherine Markham wrote:
> Hi Jeanne,
>
> The team's demog note first mentioning sticky fruit is listed near the 
> end of this email in the original message.  It sounded like it was a 
> new code but, no, they don't specifically say to add it to the food 
> code list.
>
> Thanks,
> Catherine
>
> Jeanne Altmann wrote:
>> 'sticky fruit' is (our) common name for for fruit of a very particular
>> ground cover plant (in the dry form, not eaten by the baboons, our
>> family's  name for it was 'devil's thorn' because it looked like a tiny
>> grenade and had thorns in every direction).  I'll check the latin name
>> with Stuart if the field team didn't send it; we should also confirm
>> that it's not already on the food list.  Did the team tell you to add
>> it?
>>
>> jeanne
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: babase-bounces at eeblistserv.princeton.edu
>> [mailto:babase-bounces at eeblistserv.princeton.edu] On Behalf Of Catherine
>> Markham
>> Sent: Friday, June 30, 2006 10:18 PM
>> To: The Baboon Database Project
>> Subject: Re: [Babase] New Food Code
>>
>> Hi Jeanne and Leah,
>>
>> Is simply "a sticky fruit" as good a description as we're likely to get,
>> or do you think a more descriptive code/term will eventually be
>> assigned?  I was thinking it might be worth checking with the team
>> before adding SSF to BaBase, but then again I haven't paid attention to
>> food codes in a while and perhaps we already have several others that
>> are fairly general.
>>
>> Just a thought,
>> Catherine
>>
>>
>> Leah Gerber wrote:
>>> Hi Karl,
>>>
>>> Could you add another allowable foodcode to BaBase. The code is SFF 
>>> and stands for "sticky fruit".
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>> Leah
>>>
>>> -------- Original Message --------
>>> Subject:     New food code in April Demog Notes
>>> Date:     Fri, 30 Jun 2006 12:27:10 -0400
>>> From:     Catherine Markham <amarkham at Princeton.EDU>
>>> Organization:     Princeton University
>>> To:     Leah Gerber <lgerber at duke.edu>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Hi Leah,
>>>
>>> This is random, but thought I'd point it out now while it is on my
>> mind.
>>> In proofing the April 2006 data, I saw this note for Weaver's 
>>> Demography
>>> Notes:
>>>
>>> 18 April 06
>>>
>>> ... Group was feeding on a sticky fruit on Nado Soito hill today.  
>>> We don't have a code for this kind of food so we recorded as XXF 
>>> (correct
>>
>>> code = SFF - JKW changed)...
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>> Catherine
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