Use of Artificial Nest Sites as a Function of Age of Litter in Peromyscus leucopus
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Relocation of nest sites is common among mice of the genus Peromyscus. We documented the occupation of artificial nest boxes by litters of white-footed mice (P. leucopus) at different stages of development to determine if nest relocation by lactating females is related to the developmental stage of the offspring. Three stages of development (neonates, age 0–5 d; nestlings, age 6–14 d; and juveniles, age 15–27 d) were recognized. Although the nest boxes were monitored at approximately weekly intervals, 72% of 134 litters were observed during only one of the stages of development, indicating that movement of young during lactation was common. Comparison of observed use of the boxes at different stages of development of young to expected use indicated that use of boxes was not random. Boxes were used relatively infrequently by dams with neonates and nestlings and most frequently by dams and juveniles. We believe that the suitability of a nest site to a lactating female depends on the age of her litter and that the size of the nest cavity may be an important factor in nest selection.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| 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 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".