[Babase] Weaver's Group repro records

Jeanne Altmann altj at princeton.edu
Tue Aug 5 11:55:10 EDT 2008


I have just finished doing the reproductive scoring for all groups for
2008a (Jan-June). Starting in January, we reduced coverage of Weaver's
group to one day weekly. It took a month or so to get the team into a
routine that avoided ever having more than a 6day gap, but that has now
been good for several months.  Even so, estimates of reproductive events
definitely have a greater margin of error than for our full-monitoring
schedule, and the data should be used with this in mind.  Susan, I think
we need to emphasize with Kinyua & Serah (the only observers for this
group)the need to pay particular attention to deturgescence vs
turgescence as this is more difficult in once-a-week scoring.

In general, the scoring was relatively ok to do, and if we can keep the
gaps no greater than 6 days, I think it's valuable to continue.

jeanne



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