[Babase] New Food Code
Catherine Markham
amarkham at princeton.edu
Sat Jul 1 07:53:21 EDT 2006
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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