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Early life asymmetries and the allocation of cooperative care in banded mongooses in Queen Elizabeth National Park, Uganda 2013-2016
This is a dataset of the effect of pre-natal provisioning (supply with extra food) on offspring weight and growth, contributions to offspring care, and offspring survival in banded mongooses on the Mweya Peninsula, Queen Elizabeth National Park, Uganda, collected between 2013 and 2016. Pre-natal condition of females was experimentally manipulated by provisioning half of pregnant females in each social group during the second half of pregnancy. The other half of pregnant females did not receive any extra provisioning and acted as matched controls. Through field observations we measured female weight change during pregnancy, weight change during the pup care period following birth (the escorting period), and female contributions to escorting. We also measured pup weight at birth, weight change during the escorting period, and pup survival. Data were collected to examine how extra resources are used by females to level up inequalities in pup weight via the allocation of cooperative care. Full details about this dataset can be found at https://doi.org/10.5285/9c5ce831-aeda-4a59-950f-921f820d28b7
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- Date (Publication)
- 2021-09-29
- Citation identifier
- https://catalogue.ceh.ac.uk/id/9c5ce831-aeda-4a59-950f-921f820d28b7
- Citation identifier
- doi: / 10.5285/9c5ce831-aeda-4a59-950f-921f820d28b7
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Marshall, H.H., Thompson, F.J., Cant, M.A. (2021). Early life asymmetries and the allocation of cooperative care in banded mongooses in Queen Elizabeth National Park, Uganda 2013-2016. NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre 10.5285/9c5ce831-aeda-4a59-950f-921f820d28b7
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Organisation name Individual name Electronic mail address Role University of Roehampton
Marshall, H.H. Author University of Exeter
Thompson, F.J. Author University of Exeter
Cant, M.A. Author NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre Publisher NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre Custodian University of Exeter
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Owner University of Exeter
Thompson, F.J. Point of contact
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GEMET - Concepts, version 4.1.3
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- Animal behaviour
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Early-life asymmetries
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cooperation
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escorting
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banded mongoose
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If you reuse this data, you should cite: Marshall, H.H., Thompson, F.J., Cant, M.A. (2021). Early life asymmetries and the allocation of cooperative care in banded mongooses in Queen Elizabeth National Park, Uganda 2013-2016. NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre https://doi.org/10.5285/9c5ce831-aeda-4a59-950f-921f820d28b7
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- Text, table
- Language
- English
- Character set
- UTF8
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- Biota
- Begin date
- 2013-01-01
- End date
- 2016-12-31
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Name Version Comma-separated values (CSV)
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Organisation name Individual name Electronic mail address Role NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre
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Protocol Linkage Name https://data-package.ceh.ac.uk/data/9c5ce831-aeda-4a59-950f-921f820d28b7 Download the data
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Protocol Linkage Name https://data-package.ceh.ac.uk/sd/9c5ce831-aeda-4a59-950f-921f820d28b7.zip Supporting information
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Commission Regulation (EU) No 1089/2010 of 23 November 2010 implementing Directive 2007/2/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council as regards interoperability of spatial data sets and services
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- 2010-12-08
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During manipulated breeding attempts, the pre-natal condition of females was experimentally increased by provisioning half of pregnant females in each social group with 50 g of egg per day for the second half of pregnancy; the other half of pregnant females were not provisioned and acted as matched controls. Across all groups, each manipulated breeding attempt was followed by an non-manipulated breeding attempt in which no females were provisioned. In total we manipulated 34 breeding attempts in 7 social groups, and collected data on 101 provisioned female pregnancies, and 97 non-provisioned female pregnancies. Manipulated breeding attempts produced 50 pups from provisioned females and 50 pups from non-provisioned females. We visited social groups every 1-3 days during pregnancy and after birth to record data on female weight and offspring weight. We performed focals of pups once they had emerged from the den to collect data on escorting (a form of cooperative pup care). During focals we recorded which pups were being escorted, and by which females, to calculate on the amount of escorting that females performed during the escorting period. We recorded similar data on male escorting to compare male and female behaviour. We also collected data on pup survival for the following year after birth.
Metadata
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- 9c5ce831-aeda-4a59-950f-921f820d28b7 XML
- Metadata language
- English
- Character set
- 8859 Part 1
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- Dataset
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dataset
- Date stamp
- 2025-11-13T16:20:36
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- UK GEMINI
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2.3
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Organisation name Individual name Electronic mail address Role NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre Point of contact
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