DOI: 10.48579/pro/rfi7hw
title: Replication data for: Fig 10.8, WTPDs, Lower right, clan size and clan type vs male ARS, 17 Dec 2025

description: FILE DESCRIPTION Keywords: white-tailed prairie dog, clan size, clan type, copulating females File name = Fig 10.8, WTPDs, Lower right, clan size and clan type vs male ARS, 17 Dec 2025 OLDFile name = WTPDs, Male ARS vs clan type, 22 Sept 2021 Today I add variable = clantype I started this file from File name = WTPDs, Male ARS vs clan size, 01 Sept 2021 In this file, clantype = 0.5 = Half-male clan, for which &gt;=1 are controlled by single male Clan type = 1 = One male clan Clan type = 2 = Multi-male clan Clan type = 0 = Male that lived alone, with no other females in his territory, who did not DISAPPEAR shortly after mating season If a WTPD male mated and then disappeared in early April, I did not assign a clantype Examples of latter males include 45 and 48 in 2011, and O1 in 2010 Microsats = microsatellites, all determined by Stephen Keller and Regina Trott This file includes ONLY THOSE WTPD MALES THAT COPULATED WITH &gt;=1 FEMALE-- OR MALES KNOWN TO SIRE OFFSPRING FROM MICROSATS--i.e., I have EXCLUDED WTPD males for which I have no evidence of copulation from either observations or microsats Example of excluded WTPD male is 49 (9) in 2009--no observed cops, no sired babies from microsats Note that these definitions of Clantype differ from definitions for BTPDs. Note also unique data for cottype = 0. I should also have information for males of Clantype = 0 for GPDs and UPDs. This is information for resident males that copulated--usually SOLITARY MALES--that did not live in a coterie with any females. For BTPDs, I did not have any information of solitary males that did not copulate--hence the difference in definitions just explained This file has now been checked TWO TIMES FOR CLANTYPE. Other data were all checked two times for earlier files. See note for 02 Sept 2021. WTPD male-02 died shortly after the mating season in 2010; he was with 25 in 2010 during the mating season, so I score 02's clantype as 2; I score 25's clantype in 2010 as 1. Same logic as for male 02 for male-29 in 2010: I score male-29's clantype as 2, and I score male-36's clan type as 1--because 29 and 36 lived in same territory during the 2010 mating season I score clantype of male OxUn = 0 in 2010 as 1, because he was the only male with RAB and H8 during the 2010 mating season If a WTPD male copulated or microsats show that he sired offspring, I assigned him a cottype, but sometimes the assignment was dubious if the male disappeared or died. Key stats for this file are IDENTICAL to stats for WTPDs, Male ARS vs clan size, 01 Sept 2021--as they should be OLDFile name = WTPDs, Male ARS vs clan size, 01 Sept 2021 I made this file by adding information about clan size to the following file: File name = WTPDs, Male ARS-LRS for cops ,babies, yrl,12 Apr 2021 Details below for OLDFile = WTPDs, Male ARS-LRS for cops,babies,yrl,12 Apr 2021 If a WTPD male had &gt;=2 half clans, I used the LARGER of the two half-clans for clan size for the WTPD male. In 2006, for example, WTPD male-R16 had one half-clan of size 2 (R16B) and one half-clan of size 7 (R16A). For R16 for this file, I used clan size = 7 If TWO WTPD males shared the same multi-male clan, I used the same clan size for both males. In 2011, for example, I used the same clan size of 4 for both male-19 and male-49. Multi-male clans were rare for WTPDs. On 01-02 Sept 2021, I add info on clan sizes. I check info on clan sizes TWO TIMES on 02 Sept 2021. Date = 12 April 2021 OLDFile name = WTPDs, Male ARS-LRS for cops,babies,yrl,12 Apr 2021 OLD File name = WTPDs, Male ARS-LR for cops, babies, yr., 22 Mar 2021 Change made on 12 April 2021: 3 babies (not 4) for male-01 (87) in 2010 I started this file from File name = WTPDs, Male ARS and LRS for cops, 19 Dec 2020 Note, however, that new counts of babies and yearlings are accurate FOR EACH INDIVIDUAL MALE New cases added to file since 19 Dec 2020 start with 101, end with 114 All data checked TWO TIMES on 22-23 March 2021 Since 19 Dec 2020, I have added ages for Oxone (621) in 2009, 8#2 (949) in 2009, 2010, and 2011, and O#2 (J94) up 2012. For these latest ages, if a male was captured in autumn (September or October), I assumed he was about 5 months old at that point, and that he was a yearling (1-year old) in the following spring. The logic here is that almost all male 5-month olds were still coming aboveground in autumn. Older males (&gt;=2 years), by contrast, were almost always hibernating by autumn. I can only think of one &gt;=2 year old WTPD male that we captured in autumn (WTPD male-8?) Note well: All analyses are for COPULATIONS SEEN. I do nothing here with copulations INFERRED from microsats with no behavioral observations of estrus and copulations. Change made on 12 April 2021: 3 babies (not 4) for male-01 (87) in 2010 OLDFile name = WTPDs, Male ARS and LRS for cops, 19 Dec 2020 This file is IDENTICAL to file = WTPDs, MCs vs cops, male body mass, 18 Dec 2020 I have created this identical file so that I can keep it with other ARS files Weanlings = Number of babies weaned by females with whom male copulated. Yearlings = number of sired weanlings that survived for &gt;=9 months after first emergence from natal burrow entrance. Note, however, that the male did NOT necessarily sire all the listed weanlings and yearlings Some of those weanlings and yearlings were sired by other males For paternities, see information from Keller Each male had unique eartags. If we had data from the same male in different years, then that male might have 1, 2, 3, or even 4 "Dognumbers" Dognumber = number for tracking different males for convenience. See note immediately above. This file has now been checked TWO TIMES These data used for Figure 10.8, Lower right, in Hoogland 2026. This file ready for longterm storage on 11 Feb 2025. Clan size = clan size = number of adult and yearling GPDs living in same clan territory Clan type = Clan type. See below for definitions. Females that copulated = number of females in coterie that copulated Female GPDs first copulated as yearlings, and almost ALL GPD females copulated No-male clan had no resident sexually mature male in May Half-male clan shared a single sexually mature male in May with another clan One-male clan had a single resident sexually mature male in May Multi-male clan had &gt;=2 sexually mature males in May For more information about clan types, see Chapter 10 of Hoogland 2025 On 17 Dec 2025, I cannot remember the meaning of variables = OLDBabies and OLDYrls Perhaps the meanings are in computer output not shown here. A WTPD male had the SAME EARTAGS in different years, but might have had a different Nyanzol marker or Dognumber in different years For most analyses, I will consider data from the same WTPD male in different years to be statistically independent Oktouse = 1 means that we think we observed most or all copulations by a GPD male in a particular year Oktouse = 0 means that we think we DID NOT OBSERVE most or all copulations by a GPD male in a particular year I only use AGE if I was certain--or almost certain--about a GPD male's exact age SEXPARTNERS SEEN = minimal number of GPD females with whom GPD male copulated, with or without MCs by the copulating male I do not have variable = Oktouse in t his EXCEL file for WTPDS. Variable = WEIGHT in this file is for male body mass just before, just after, or during mating season, I think. I need to check if weight = male body mass during mating season. I do NOT use variable = weight for data shown in Fig 10.8 of Hoogland 2026. cops = copulations File name = Fig 10.8, WTPDs, Lower right, clan size and clan type vs male ARS, 17 Dec 2025