[Babase] agonism and grooming issue
Lacey Maryott
lacey.maryott at duke.edu
Mon Mar 19 12:22:40 EDT 2007
Hello all!
I spent some time this weekend looking at the grooming and agonism
data year by year, using the query Karl provided last week in his e-mail
as a guide. I showed Susan the tables I was able to create comparing
days 1-31 of each year, over years 1983-2005, and there are some
definite patterns that pop out. It seems like as far as agonism data
goes, it was for the most part entered as the first of every month, with
a few exceptions each year, up until 1994. It appears that in the
middle of 1994 the convention for this changed, and by 1995, the dates
are pretty evenly distributed throughout the days of the months. For
grooming however, years 83-93 appear the same as the early (83-93)
agonisms, with a definite bias toward the first, but from 1994-1998,
every grooming was pushed to the 1st of the month. Then, in 1999, the
distribution goes back to resembling that of 1983-1993, with a bias
toward the first of the month, but with more data on the 2nd through the
31st than in 83-93. I'm sorry if the way this is worded is a bit
confusing, but I have posted in the sandbox, two tables representing
what I just described. The first is sandbox.agonisms and the second
sandbox.grooming . I granted permissions to the group babase_editors.
I'm hoping that includes everyone who has an interest in seeing this.
If it doesn't, please let me know! I'm only slowly getting the hang of
all of this.
Any questions, comments, just let me know!
thanks
Lacey
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Lacey Maryott
Department of Biology
Duke University
ph: 919-660-7306
fax: 919-660-7293
Lacey.Maryott at duke.edu
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