[Babase] Male ranks 2008A completed

Susan Alberts alberts at duke.edu
Wed Mar 4 12:21:43 EST 2009


OK thanks for getting back to us so quickly -- I only knew about the  
demog note, did not remeber the email (I know I received it, but  
didn't register it).Let's go with that as you've done.
Susan

On 4Mar, 2009, at 8:34 AM, kfenn wrote:

> GYAN's age was assigned per the email exchange that I have copied  
> below (received 24 Aug 08).  I will change it if JA and SC still  
> want that after re-reading the email.  It's all the same to me, but  
> I do think we already tried to address the confusion.
>
> Tabby
>
> Lacey Maryott wrote:
>>
>> 1. Note to Tabby -- GYAN, new male in Nyayo's immigrated Febg 2008.  
>> You assigned him an age like that of Bucky, but upon re-reading the  
>> demog note for him, Lacey and I realized that they said he was the  
>> same size as Fabian, not the same size as Bucky (they said his coat  
>> color was like that of Bucky). Please correct the est birthdate,  
>> thanks.
>>
>>
> Hi all,
> Gyan's size Jkw thinks it should be Buckey's Size.
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jeanne Altmann" <altj at Princeton.EDU 
> >
> To: "Amboseli Baboon Project" <ambnyani at Princeton.EDU>
> Cc: "Susan Alberts" <alberts at duke.edu>; "Katherine H. Fenn" <kfenn at Princeton.EDU 
> >; "Lacey Maryott" <lacey.maryott at duke.edu>; "Jeanne Altmann" <altj at Princeton.EDU 
> >
> Sent: Wednesday, 20 August, 2008 21:11
> Subject: GYAN's age--team, and especially JKW
>
>
> Hi team,
> GYAN joined Nyayos in February, and we need a little help on  
> estimating
> his birthdate. JKW has the first, good notes on GYAN and indicated  
> on 23
> Feb that he was the size of Fabian.  Then during the last days, on 27
> Feb, the note written by JKW (based on all of your looking?) indicates
> that he is the size of COOL or sightly bigger. COOL (born Sep 01) is
> 5mos older than FABIAN (born Feb 02). We are trying to decide  
> whether we
> should just estimate between the two or whether GYAN is really more
> COOL's age. Sebastian is between COOL and FABIAN (Nov 01) and BUCKY is
> Sep 01 like COOL, so they might also be good comparisons.  Do you have
> any thoughts about this?  Or could you look the next time you are with
> the group and let us know if you have any idea from that because it
> isn't so long since he came into the group.
>
>
> So the males we are talking about are:
>
> GYAN
>
> and
>
> COOL
> BUCKY
> SEBASTIAN
> FABIAN
>
> Thanks,
> Jeanne & Tabby
>
> -- 
> Tabby Fenn
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>
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