Variation in the Timing of Nutritional Weaned Age in Colobus vellerosus
| dc.contributor.advisor | Sicotte, Pascale | |
| dc.contributor.author | Rissling, Tianna C. | |
| dc.contributor.committeemember | Katzenberg, Mary Anne | |
| dc.contributor.committeemember | Fedigan, Linda Marie | |
| dc.date | 2018-11 | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2018-09-18T19:52:34Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2018-09-18T19:52:34Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2018-09-04 | |
| dc.description.abstract | The transition between infancy and juvenility occurs once nutritional independence is achieved. Weaning, weaned age, and weaned event are all landmarks during this transition but are ill defined. In this thesis, I reviewed the literature on the transition from infancy to juvenility. I then examined the factors that influenced this transition from nutritional dependence to independence, and survivorship in a wild, folivorous primate. I compiled behavioural records from 83 infants from a population of Colobus vellerosus. Infants were weaned earlier when they lived in a good quality home range. Most weaned events occurred during or prior to peaks in easy to process foods. New juveniles were also more likely to survive when their weaned event coincided with high food availability. These findings suggest that food availability is the most influential factor determining when during the year, and at what age, infants transition to juveniles. | en_US |
| dc.identifier.citation | Rissling, T. C. (2018). Variation in the timing of nutritional weaned age in Colobus vellerosus (Master's thesis, University of Calgary, Calgary, Canada). Retrieved from https://prism.ucalgary.ca. doi:10.11575/PRISM/32931 | en_US |
| dc.identifier.doi | http://dx.doi.org/10.11575/PRISM/32931 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/1880/107755 | |
| dc.language.iso | eng | |
| dc.publisher.faculty | Arts | |
| dc.publisher.faculty | Graduate Studies | |
| dc.publisher.institution | University of Calgary | en |
| dc.publisher.place | Calgary | en |
| dc.rights | University of Calgary graduate students retain copyright ownership and moral rights for their thesis. You may use this material in any way that is permitted by the Copyright Act or through licensing that has been assigned to the document. For uses that are not allowable under copyright legislation or licensing, you are required to seek permission. | |
| dc.subject | Weaning | |
| dc.subject.classification | Anthropology | en_US |
| dc.subject.classification | Anthropology--Physical | en_US |
| dc.title | Variation in the Timing of Nutritional Weaned Age in Colobus vellerosus | |
| dc.type | master thesis | |
| thesis.degree.discipline | Anthropology | |
| thesis.degree.grantor | University of Calgary | |
| thesis.degree.name | Master of Arts (MA) | |
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