[Babaseannounce] Re: [Babase] unconventional snames...and Cameroon

Susan Alberts alberts at duke.edu
Mon Nov 23 17:54:51 EST 2009


Thanks Niki, this is helpful and the list looks good.

If possible, can we eliminate the sname CAM and retain just CS1 for  
her, erasing all record of anyone with the sname CAM from the  
database? That would free up a good and useful 3-letter code for the  
future, always appreciated. I don't know what is involved, so veto me  
if this is a lot of work or problematic from some other perspective.  
THis animal had a short life in our study population I think, so this  
would not be a problem from the perspective of current info I think.

Susan

On Nov 23, 2009, at 5:12 PM, Niki Learn wrote:

> When working with old data I have sometimes encountered older  
> baboons with oddball snames that do not fit the current convention  
> of being the first three letters of the name.  I had started making  
> a list of these so that I didn’t have to look up older individuals  
> all the time to make sure I had the right sname.  I have just  
> uploaded what I believe to be a complete list to babase_pending  
> titled “unconventional_snames”.  It lists the oddball names that  
> appear in alphabetical order and includes 7 additional names from  
> snames_not_in_biog at the bottom.  I thought people might find it a  
> handy reference when entering older data.
>
> While reviewing snames_not_in_biog for unconventional snames, I  
> noticed that Cameroon is listed in this table with sname CAM.  There  
> is, however, in fact, a Cameroon in biograph who appears in the  
> unconventional names list.  She was from Proton’s group and is  
> listed in biograph as CS1 (pid = CAS1).  I am guessing this is the  
> same baboon and her name did not get fully changed when she was  
> given a real one but perhaps someone can confirm that?  If that is  
> the case then we should probably change her sname to CAM (there are  
> no other CAMs) in biograph and delete her from snames_not_in_biog  
> and unconventional_snames, yes?
>
> Thanks,
> Niki
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