[Babase] agonism and grooming issue

Lacey Maryott lacey.maryott at duke.edu
Mon Mar 19 12:22:40 EDT 2007


Hello all!
   I spent some time this weekend looking at the grooming and agonism 
data year by year, using the query Karl provided last week in his e-mail 
as a guide.  I showed Susan the tables I was able to create comparing 
days 1-31 of each year, over years 1983-2005, and there are some 
definite patterns that pop out.  It seems like as far as agonism data 
goes, it was for the most part entered as the first of every month, with 
a few exceptions each year, up until 1994.  It appears that in the 
middle of 1994 the convention for this changed, and by 1995, the dates 
are pretty evenly distributed throughout the days of the months. For 
grooming however, years 83-93 appear the same as the early (83-93) 
agonisms, with a definite bias toward the first, but from 1994-1998, 
every grooming was pushed to the 1st of the month.  Then, in 1999, the 
distribution goes back to resembling that of 1983-1993, with a bias 
toward the first of the month, but with more data on the 2nd through the 
31st than in 83-93.  I'm sorry if the way this is worded is a bit 
confusing, but I have posted in the sandbox, two tables representing 
what I just described.  The first is sandbox.agonisms and the second 
sandbox.grooming .  I granted permissions to the group babase_editors.  
I'm hoping that includes everyone who has an interest in seeing this.  
If it doesn't, please let me know! I'm only slowly getting the hang of 
all of this. 

Any questions, comments, just let me know!
thanks

Lacey

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Lacey Maryott
Department of Biology
Duke University
ph: 919-660-7306
fax: 919-660-7293
Lacey.Maryott at duke.edu 



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