[Babase] Male immigrant questions for Susan

Catherine Markham babase@www.eco.princeton.edu
Mon, 22 Aug 2005 16:53:32 -0400


Hi Susan,

I have a few questions for you regarding two new immigrant males seen in 
Viola's group last March.  On 22 March 2005, a young adult male and a 
young juvenile male were censused as present in the group.  The young 
adult male was not seen again and was never named.  The young juvenile 
male stayed with Viola's group through early April and was later named 
Sooty.

The field demography note for Viola's group during this time period read:

22 March 2005: Wabash and a young adult male who is a hybrid are in 
Viola's group today.  The young adult male is very shy and he is keeping 
to a distance from the rest of the group but I'm sure it was because of 
observers.  With him was a young juvenile male the size of EGO and also 
very shy and following that young adult male wherever he went.  He is 
probably also from Ositeti and left the group to follow the young male. 
  He is approximately 3 1/2 years old.  We will give them names if they 
stay.

25 March 2005: Wabash and the adult male seen on the 22nd of March 05 
are not with Viola's group today... Also the juvenile male is still present.

28 March 2005: We named the juvenile male in Viola's group Sooty (SOO).

Since the young adult male was never named, I couldn't think of a way 
include him in the Babase Census and Members tables for the group that 
day.  Is that ok?

Also, an official age estimate was never done on SOO.  The only age info 
we have for him comes from the first field demography note quoted above 
- the team confirmed that no other age info was collected.  Jeanne 
suggested I check the reference to EGO's age... EGO was born 25 December 
2001 (bstatus = 0), so EGO's age in March 2005 is approximately 3 1/4 
years.  I thought this coincided well with the team's estimate that SOO 
is about 3 1/2 years.

Do you agree that I should give SOO a birth date of 21 September 2001 
(making him 3 1/2 years old on 22 March 2005)?  Also, what bstatus is 
appropriate?  The code options we currently have are:

0 - Within a few days
1 - Within 1 year
2 - Within 2 years
3 - Within 3 years
4 - Within 4 years
9 - Unknown -don't use

Thanks for your help,
Catherine