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Showing 1 to 20 of 41 for “"subadults"”.
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Bioarchaeological assessment of diet and changes in femoral and humeral stable isotopic values among subadults at Medieval Alytus, Lithuania.
… feeding practices were previously unknown for subadults excavated from the cemetery at Alytus, Lithuania (14th-18th centuries), previous research concludes that Alytus' subadults experienced high rates of physiological, metabolic, non-specific stress, in addition to specific diseases like …
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An Investigotion of the Prevalence of Rickets among Subadults from the Romon Necropolis of lsola Sacra (1st to 3rd centuries AD), Italy
… <p>Fifteen percent (27/182) of lsola Sacra subadults, birth to 15 years, show rachitic traits with a wide range of morphological presentation. Most individuals suffered from hyperplastic rickets, less likely due to malnutrition. All age categories and burial types show rachitic traits. No …
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The behavior of displaced gray squirrels
… residence than either adults (36%) or subadults (33%). Most squirrels that homed (67%) took less than 14 days. More squirrels homed when released in the winter (44%) than in the fall. More males (23%) homed than females (10%). More adults (18%) and subadults (17%) homed than juveniles …
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Solitary and Social Object Play in the Bottlenose Dolphin (<i>Tursiops truncatus</i>)
… social play significantly more than adults and subadults. Within their own age group, calves, juveniles, and subadults all showed a significant preference for solitary play. Preferences for play partners spanned across related or unrelated calves, juveniles, subadults, and adults. Calves …
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The Effects of Parental Age and Housing Type on the Reproductive Success of the Purple Martin (<em>Progne subis subis</em>)
… consist of adults (experienced breeders) and subadults (first time breeders). Housing types included in this study were aluminum housing, wooden housing, plastic gourds, natural gourds, SuperGourds, and mailbox housing. The reproductive success was defined as the percentage of the original …
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Bringing Childhood Health into Focus: Incorporating Survivors into Standard Methods of Investigation
… when assessing childhood health in the past, as subadults are the most vulnerable group in a population and are therefore less likely to fully represent the health of those who survived. The ability of subadults to represent the health of those who survived is tested here by directly comparing …
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Food Selectivity of Bigmouth Buffalo (Ictiobus cyprinellus, Valenciennes) in Lake Poinsett, South Dakota
Food habits of bigmouth buffalo fry, subadults, and adults were studied in lake Poinsett, South Dakota, from January to November, 1968. Fifty-six fry fed primarily (75.0% by volume) on benthic organisms. Four hundred fifty-five subadults and adults fed entirely on plankton. Daphnia pulex adults …
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Sexually Dimorphic Developmental Patterns of Chemosensory Behaviors in African Elephants (Loxodonta Africana)
… and across four age classes (calves, juveniles, subadults and adults) in the performance of chemosensory behaviors. African elephants were studied at a waterhole in 2004-5 at Ndarakwai Ranch, Tanzania. I identified 277 elephants and 26 distinct female-offspring groups. Sex differences in the …
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Consequences of Contact: An Evaluation of Childhood Health Patterns Using Enamel Hypoplasias Among the Colonial Maya of Tipu
… 325 individuals were placed into age groups of subadults (6-17 years), younger adults (18-35 years), and older adults (36-50+ years). The population was also considered for differences by sex and tooth type.</p> <p>Results showed a mean of 1.89 hypoplasias per tooth with canines averaging 0.36 …
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Juvenile and subadult Gulf Sturgeon (Acipenser desotoi) use of the Pascagoula River estuary
… sections predominated by sand when compared to subadults, and subadults had more variable use across each section. This thesis provides insight into juvenile and subadult GS movement and use within a natural and altered estuarine environment to help inform management and recovery goals.</p>
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AN ASSESSMENT OF SUBADULT SKELETAL GROWTH AND DEVELOPMENT BASED ON A MICHIGAN MEDICAL EXAMINER SAMPLE
<p>When there is a high rate of subadults going through the medical examiner’s office (MEO), it is important to determine if there is a common underlying reason. The role of the MEO is to conduct forensic investigations, but also to assist with public health surveillance. Because these roles go …
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Nutritional Stress & Early Development in the Neolithic Near East: A Comparison of Adult and Subadult Tooth Size
… to evaluate size of the dentition of adults and subadults to evaluate potential changes in stress during the Neolithic in relation to diet. A comparison of adult and subadult teeth was performed between the populations of Çatalhöyük and Aşıklı Höyük, along with a comparison of mean tooth size …
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Giraffa camelopardalis: limb bone histology through ontogeny
… different ontogenetic stages (foetal, juveniles, subadults, and adults). Thin sections were prepared for all the bones, and microanatomical (using Bone Profiler) and histological analyses were conducted on each of the sections. The study examined three main aspects, 1) Crosssectional shape changes …
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Smulkiųjų žinduolių bendrijos pokyčiai Zarasų rajone /
… were bigger in adult group, seven – in subadults and ten characters – in the group of young voles. In subadults of common voles cranial measurements in winter do not differ from those in autumn. In adult common voles most of cranial measurements in winter were significantly shorter, …
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The socio-ecology and social behaviour of the brown hyaena Hyaena Brunnea, Thunberg, 1820 in the southern Kalahari.
… rest of the population consists of dispersing subadults and nomadic adult males. Territory size is mainly affected by the dispersion pattern of the food in the territory and group size by the "quality" of the food. Mating is carried out between nomadic males and group-living females and …
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Multi-scale patterns of habitat use by Roanoke logperch (Percina rex) in Virginia rivers: a comparison among populations and life stages
… and riffle habitat, often over gravel substrate. Subadults were found in lower water velocities and more embedded microhabitats than adults. Young-of-year logperch were found in shallow, stagnant backwaters and secondary channels. In the Nottoway River, both adult and subadult logperch were found …
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Developing Subadult Sex Estimation Standards Using Adult Morphological Sex Traits and an Ontogenetic Approach
… of their true capacity to estimate sex in subadults, rather than assuming sex estimation can only be conducted on individuals estimated to be 18 years of age or older. Data were collected from a large sample (n = 625: m = 386, f = 239) of American individuals between the ages of eight and …
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Growing Up in Tell el-Amarna: An Examination of Growth and Non-specific Stress Indicators in New Kingdom Children.
… comparative populations. Result showed that the subadults from the South Tombs Cemetery were under tremendous childhood stress as evidenced by the reduced growth status and high rates of childhood stress indicators. Comparison of the biocultural models indicate that migration, population growth, …
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Band-Recovery Analysis and Survival Estimates for South Dakota Giant Canada Goose Populations
… derived for this study were for normal, wild subadults (sexes pooled) banded in the Waubay region (1 2.0 ± 2.7%) (1959-66) and eastern South Dakota (0.2 ± 0.8%) (1977-95). Program CENTROID was used to test for differences in recovery distributions. A difference occurred for both direct …
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Human skeletal asymmetry. A study of directional and fluctuating asymmetry in assessing health, environmental conditions, and social status in English populations from the 7th to the 19th centuries.
… throughout the skeletons of 1753 adults and subadults. The sample is from 11 archaeological sites spanning the Anglo-Saxon to the Victorian periods. The extent of developmental instability is also determined, for the first time, by employing the prevalence of population outliers. The normal …
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