[Babase] Fwd: baboons with no deathdate and Ositeti subgroups(formerly Mica's infant MESHAEK)

Jeanne Altmann altj at Princeton.EDU
Sat Oct 10 04:05:26 EDT 2009


I think it makes sense to me in a quick read,
jeanne

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[mailto:babase-bounces at eeblistserv.princeton.edu] On Behalf Of Karl O.
Pinc
Sent: Friday, October 09, 2009 5:36 PM
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Subject: Re: [Babase] Fwd: baboons with no deathdate and Ositeti
subgroups(formerly Mica's infant MESHAEK)

On 10/09/2009 03:33:23 PM, Niki Learn wrote:
> Makes sense to me.  So along with "killing" baboons in babase at the
> end of
> the update I would also "censor" those that have migrated out or
> otherwise
> disappeared in such a manner that we cannot confidently call them
> dead.  And
> if individuals return to the population after an absence I would have
> to
> mark them alive at the beginning of the update so that their census
> information could be entered (and babase would throw an error if I
> missed
> any or if there was a spelling error and I tried to upload census 
> data
> for a
> censored individual, yes?).  Sounds reasonable.  Karl?  Jeanne?

Good by me.

(Anything that bestows the power of resurrection is ok
in my book.   ;-)



Karl <kop at meme.com>
Free Software:  "You don't pay back, you pay forward."
                 -- Robert A. Heinlein


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