[Babase] clarification of default ranking

Jun Yang junyang at gmail.com
Thu Apr 10 23:54:05 EDT 2008


I am updating ranker right now to fix some bugs and add some features.
I would appreciate some more clarification on the default ranking---in
particular, some definitions. Below is the default ranking rules Susan
suggested in an earlier message:

1. Adult males, in reverse age order (youngest to oldest)
2. Subadult males, in age order (oldest to youngest)
3. Adult females, alpha
4. Juv males, age order (oldest to youngest)
5. Juv females, age order (oldest to youngest)

Here are my interpretations---please correct me if I am wrong:

Adult females: According to rnktypes.query for ADF, these are females
with mature date (in maturedates) <= ranking date.
Juv females: I assume they are females that are not adults???
Adult males: According to rnktypes.query for ADM, these are males with
adult rank attainment date (in rankdates) <= ranking date.
Juv males: I assume they are males with age <= 7???
Subadult males: I assume they are males that are neither adult males
or juv males???

Thanks!

--- Jun Y.


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