[Babase] New Food Code

Jeanne Altmann altj at Princeton.EDU
Sat Jul 1 10:23:54 EDT 2006


I just realized that sticky fruit and devil's thorn are two different
fruits that are eaten by the baboons when soft--I'll check with Stuart
on latin names,
j 

-----Original Message-----
From: babase-bounces at eeblistserv.princeton.edu
[mailto:babase-bounces at eeblistserv.princeton.edu] On Behalf Of Catherine
Markham
Sent: Saturday, July 01, 2006 7:53 AM
To: The Baboon Database Project
Subject: Re: [Babase] New Food Code

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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