* We use this section to keep Babase users up to date on the latest additions and changes to the database. This should allow users to ask more informed questions of the database as well as allowing you to have a better idea of what results to expect. Any temporary unavailability or inaccuracies that may occur within Babase while work is being done will also be announced in this section.
UPDATE
Dataset |
Last Updated |
Data Included |
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Group Membership and Life Events* |
11 Aug 2023 |
Data through Jun 2023 |
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Census backfill |
6 Dec 2023 |
Complete for Alto's from Sep 1980 onward and for Hook's from May 1983 onward. Not begun for Lodge group and its fission products. Most other groups censuses have also been backfilled with the exception of Stud's group. |
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Demography note backfill |
6 Dec 2023 |
Not begun for Lodge and its fission products. For other groups, complete from 1989-onward. |
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Sexual Cycles** |
11 Aug 2023 |
Cycling data through Jun 2023; sexskins and repro notes through Dec 2022 and backfilled through 1997 (except for Joy's and Nzige's 1997 data, which throw a lot of errors) |
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Interaction Data |
08 Feb 2024 |
Data through Dec 2023 |
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SWERB Data |
2x/ every week |
With a few exceptions, all data until ~(at most) 7 days previous to today. Exceptional cases have to wait for a quarterly update, the most recent of which added data through Dec 2023 |
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Rankdates Table |
23 May 2023 |
Data Through Mar 2023 (by dates assigned to obviously-adult immigrants and males > 7yrs, 5mos and residing in nonstudy groups updated through same quarter as demography and repro tables) |
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Ranks Table |
Jun 2023 |
ALM/ADM through Dec 2022; ALF/ADF through Dec 2022 |
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Min_Maxs view |
11 Aug 2023 |
temp and rain data from Aug 1976 through Jun 2023 |
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Digital Weather |
11 Aug 2023 |
Meteorological data automatically collected by machine, through Jun 2023 |
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Wounds and Pathologies |
11 Aug 2023 |
tables and views beginning with wp_ through Jun 2023 |
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Princeton babase_pending tables |
6 Dec 2023 |
neonatals, subgroups, intergroup_encounters, hybridity_rawmorpho, deaths, dispersenotes, & corpse_info through Sep 2023 |
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Duke babase_pending tables |
08 Feb 2024 |
Predation_By, Predation_On, Human_Disturb through Dec 2023 |
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Inventory |
Updated constantly, as needed |
Tissues and extracted DNA's/RNA's that are or ever have been at Duke, Notre Dame, or the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig |
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Genetic Markers: msat_reactions |
Apr 2018 |
Reaction info through plate 415 |
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Genetic Markers: msat_results |
Apr 2018 |
Results data through plate 415 |
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Genetic Markers: Genotypes |
Dec 2018 |
All finalized microsatellite genotypes through end of year 2018 |
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Hormone Samples |
(Not recorded) |
Fecal samples through 21 Jun 2021 |
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Hormone Preps and Results |
14 Mar 2023 |
All lab work done through 06 Mar 2023. Estrogen: through 06 Mar 2023. Glucocorticoids: through 22 Dec 2022. Progesterone: through 27 Feb 2023. Testosterone: through 09 Oct 2019. Thyroid hormone: 24 Jun 2022. |
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- *Tables included are Biograph, Census, Members, Demog, etc.
- **Tables included are Cycles, Cycpoints, Pregs, Cycgaps, Cycgapsdays, Cycstats, Repstats, MMintervals, MDintervals, etc.
- ***Tables included are Interact_Data, Parts, Acts, Point_Data, Samples, Neighbors, Fpoints, etc.
The dispersedates, consortdates, and maturedates tables are updated by both Duke and Princeton and are not necessarily updated at such regular intervals as the information above. Their addition to the status table above is pending, but needs further discussion and clarification between the database managers and the powers that be.