MATINGS

Each row, taken together with the related EVENTS row, represents a mating event recording during a follow. Matings are recorded as dyadic pairs.

The related EVENTS row must be a mating event; it must have an EVENTS.Behavior value of MATE. This related EVENTS row supplies the time of the mating and relates to the follow, and the ROLES role related to the event supplies information on the individuals involved.

The system will generate a warning if the community of the follow related to the mating information, or that of the WATCHES row that exists to support the record of mating, is not the community associated with the mating record. This means, if the MATINGS.CommID is not the WATCHES.CommID of the related WATCHES row.

For further information, including additional data integrity rules, see the documentation of the EVENTS table.

EID (Event ID)

The EVENTS.EID identifying the grooming event. A unique, automatically generated, positive integer which serves to identify the row. The value of this column cannot be changed. The related event contains information on the time of the mating and is related to the participants in the mating event.

This column may not be NULL.

Swelling

A code designating the degree of the female’s sexual swelling. A CYCLE_STATES.Code value. This column may not be NULL.

Fail

A boolean value, TRUE when the mating was not completed. This column may not be NULL.

Interference

Text containing the BIOGRAPHY_DATA.AnimIDs of chimps that interfered with the mating and/or comments regarding interference. This column may be empty text. It need not contain characters, but it may not contain only whitespace characters. This column may not be NULL.

Incest

A boolean value, TRUE when the mating occurred between close kin. This column may not be NULL.

Consort

A boolean value, TRUE when the mating occurred while on consort. This column may not be NULL.

Guarding

A boolean value, TRUE when the mating occurred while the male was exhibiting guarding behavior. This column may not be NULL.

Courting

A boolean value, TRUE when the male courted the female. This column may not be NULL.

Camp

A boolean value, TRUE when the mating occurred at the feeding station. This column may not be NULL.

CommID

A code for the community recorded along with the mating information. A COMM_IDS.CommID value. This is not necessarily the community the mating participants are a member of.

Note

This is not the canonical source of information on the focal’s community at the time of observation or the community under observation when the data was collected. It may, in fact, differ from the community recorded elsewhere.

This column exists because of the way the community was recorded in the old MS Access database. There, the community was recorded twice, once in the follow and again with the mating information.

When there is no related follow, there is still a related WATCHES row that exists solely to provide information concerning mating data. In this case the community information in the WATCHES row was initially the same as the value of this column. But the data could change and become out of sync.

This column exists so no information was lost in the conversion of the MS Access data to SokweDB. At some point in the future, perhaps when all inconsistencies between the value of this column and the community information recorded elsewhere are resolved, this column may be removed from this table.

This column may not be NULL.

Extractedby

Code for the student or volunteer who extracted the grooming information from the written records and prepared it for data entry into the database. A PEOPLE.Person value. This column may not be NULL.

Source

A code designating the source of the mating information A MATING_SOURCES.Source value. This column may not be NULL.

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