9c5ce831-aeda-4a59-950f-921f820d28b7 English ISO/IEC 8859-1 (also known as Latin 1) dataset dataset NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre Lancaster Environment Centre, Library Avenue, Bailrigg Lancaster LA1 4AP UK info@eidc.ac.uk https://eidc.ac.uk/ EIDC website The Environmental Information Data Centre (EIDC) is the UK's national data centre for terrestrial and freshwater sciences. information pointOfContact 2025-11-13T16:20:36 UK GEMINI 2.3 Early life asymmetries and the allocation of cooperative care in banded mongooses in Queen Elizabeth National Park, Uganda 2013-2016 2021-09-29 publication https://catalogue.ceh.ac.uk/id/9c5ce831-aeda-4a59-950f-921f820d28b7 10.5285/9c5ce831-aeda-4a59-950f-921f820d28b7 doi: 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 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 Marshall, H.H. University of Roehampton harry.marshall@roehampton.ac.uk https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2120-243X ORCID record ORCID is an open, non-profit, community-driven effort to create and maintain a registry of unique researcher identifiers and a transparent method of linking research activities and outputs to these identifiers. information author Thompson, F.J. University of Exeter F.J.Thompson@exeter.ac.uk https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7581-2204 ORCID record ORCID is an open, non-profit, community-driven effort to create and maintain a registry of unique researcher identifiers and a transparent method of linking research activities and outputs to these identifiers. information author Cant, M.A. University of Exeter M.A.Cant@exeter.ac.uk https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1530-3077 ORCID record ORCID is an open, non-profit, community-driven effort to create and maintain a registry of unique researcher identifiers and a transparent method of linking research activities and outputs to these identifiers. information author NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre info@eidc.ac.uk publisher NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre info@eidc.ac.uk custodian University of Exeter EMAIL NOT PROVIDED owner Thompson, F.J. University of Exeter F.J.Thompson@exeter.ac.uk https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7581-2204 ORCID record ORCID is an open, non-profit, community-driven effort to create and maintain a registry of unique researcher identifiers and a transparent method of linking research activities and outputs to these identifiers. information pointOfContact Mungos mungo Wikidata 2012-10-29 creation animal behaviour GEMET - Concepts, version 4.1.3 2019-01-28 creation Animal behaviour Early-life asymmetries cooperation escorting banded mongoose otherRestrictions no limitations otherRestrictions This resource is available under the terms of the Open Government Licence otherRestrictions 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 textTable English utf8 biota 2013-01-01 2016-12-31 29.43 31.188 -1.531 -0.005 Comma-separated values (CSV) NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre info@eidc.ac.uk distributor https://data-package.ceh.ac.uk/data/9c5ce831-aeda-4a59-950f-921f820d28b7 Download the data Download a copy of this data download https://data-package.ceh.ac.uk/sd/9c5ce831-aeda-4a59-950f-921f820d28b7.zip Supporting information Supporting information available to assist in re-use of this dataset information dataset dataset 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 2010-12-08 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.