The nature and consequences of motherdaughter associations in naturally and forcibly weaned bison
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Bison (Bos bison) mothers and daughters have a stable association that may persist beyond weaning, whereas no such extended relationship exists between mothers and sons. The practice of forced weaning of bison in Antelope Island State Park, Utah, provided the opportunity to experimentally investigate the nature and consequences of postweaning motherdaughter associations. Forced weaning changes the early social environment of calves and may disrupt social organization by eliminating motherdaughter associations. We compared the motherdaughter associations of forcibly weaned female yearlings, following release back into the population, with those of naturally weaned female yearlings. Yearlings that had been forcibly weaned as calves did not reassociate with their mothers following winter separation. Forcibly weaned yearlings spent no more time with their mothers than with randomly chosen adult females. Naturally weaned yearlings had a significantly stronger association with their mothers, were displaced less often by other herd members, and spent more time in the centre of groups than forcibly weaned yearlings. We were unable to detect benefits to naturally weaned daughters in terms of growth and age at first reproduction. Mothers of naturally weaned yearlings did not differ from mothers of forcibly weaned yearlings in subsequent mass change or reproduction.
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Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
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