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Record W4414802883 · doi:10.1101/2025.10.03.680086

Demographic, behavioral, and ecological data from a long-term field study of wild baboons in Amboseli, Kenya

2025· preprint· en· W4414802883 on OpenAlexaff
Chelsea A. Southworth, Jack C. Winans, Jacob B. Gordon, Niki H. Learn, William Wilber, Catherine Andreadis, Gretchen Andreasen, Mimi Arandjelovic, C. Ryan Campbell, Mary Chege, Maria J.A. Creighton, Carmen M. Cromer, Reena Debray, Carly C. Dickson, Pamela Ferretti, Elizabeth George, Laurence R. Gesquiere, Shuyu He, Leif Hey, Emily Jefferson, Ipek G. Kulahci, Brian A. Lerch, Lee Nonnamaker, Iker Rivas-González, Beniamino Tuliozi, Shasta E. Webb, Susan C. Alberts, Elizabeth A. Archie, Jenny Tung

Bibliographic record

VenuebioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory) · 2025
Typepreprint
Languageen
FieldPsychology
TopicPrimate Behavior and Ecology
Canadian institutionsCanadian Institute for Advanced ResearchUniversity of Calgary
FundersMax-Planck-Institut für Evolutionäre AnthropologieNational Commission for Science, Technology and InnovationMax-Planck-GesellschaftUniversity of Notre DamePrinceton UniversityNational Institutes of HealthNational Science Foundation
KeywordsPopulationBaboonMammalEcosystemPopulation ecologyPrimatologyPrecipitation

Abstract

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Long-term data sets on individually recognized animals and their environments are critical to understanding animal behavior, evolution, and ecology. However, they are resource- and time-intensive and seldom made publicly available. The Amboseli Baboon Research Project (ABRP) is one of the longest-running studies of a wild mammal population in the world and has collected extensive data on the baboon population of the Amboseli ecosystem in Kenya since 1971. Here, we describe four ABRP data sets newly available to the evolutionary biology, behavioral ecology, and primatology communities: (1) the sizes and demographic compositions of 21 social groups from 1971-2023; (2) the activity budgets of adult females and immatures from 1984-2023; (3) behavioral data on diet for adult females and immatures from 1984-2023; and (4) weather data, including precipitation from 1976-2023 and temperature from 1976-2022. Data are aggregated annually and monthly to enable cross-data set analyses. These data offer a rare longitudinal perspective on behavioral and ecological change in a wild mammal population.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame machine prediction

Teacher imitation

Not 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.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.001
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.001
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Observational · Consensus signal: Observational
GenreCandidate signal: Dataset · Consensus signal: none
Teacher disagreement score0.077
Threshold uncertainty score0.153

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0010.001
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0020.001
Science and technology studies0.0010.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.001
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0010.000

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.

Opus teacher head0.057
GPT teacher head0.330
Teacher spread0.273 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designObservational
Domainnot available
GenreDataset

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".

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