Estimates of life history parameters in a high latitude, arid‐country vervet monkey population

Henzi, SP, Blersch, RA, Bonnell, TR, Clarke, M, Dostie, MJ, Lucas, M, Jarrett, J, McFarland, R ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8245-9269, Nord, C, Takahashi, A, Vilette, C, Young, C ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8919-2093, Young, MM and Barrett, L, 2023. Estimates of life history parameters in a high latitude, arid‐country vervet monkey population. American Journal of Primatology. ISSN 0275-2565

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Abstract

We present data on life history parameters from a long‐term study of vervet monkeys in the Eastern Cape, South Africa. Estimates are presented of age at first conception for females and age at natal dispersal for males, along with the probability of survival to adulthood for infants born during the study, female reproductive life‐span, reproductive output (including lifetime reproductive success for a subset of females), and inter‐birth interval (IBI) duration. We also assess the effect of maternal age and infant survival on length of IBI. We then go on to compare life history parameters for our population with those from two East African populations in Kenya (Amboseli and Laikipia). We find there is broad consensus across the three populations, although mean infant survival was considerably lower for the two East African sites. Such comparisons must be made cautiously, however, as local ecology across the duration of the studies obviously has an impact on the estimates obtained. With this caveat in place, we consider that the concordance between values is sufficient to enable the values reported here to be used in comparative studies of primate life history, although data from habitats with higher rainfall and lower levels of seasonality are needed, and the results presented here should not be seen as canonical.

Item Type:	Journal article
Publication Title:	American Journal of Primatology
Creators:	Henzi, S.P., Blersch, R.A., Bonnell, T.R., Clarke, M., Dostie, M.J., Lucas, M., Jarrett, J., McFarland, R., Nord, C., Takahashi, A., Vilette, C., Young, C., Young, M.M. and Barrett, L.
Publisher:	Wiley
Date:	4 June 2023
ISSN:	0275-2565
Identifiers:	Number Type 10.1002/ajp.23527 DOI 1874081 Other
Rights:	© 2023 The Authors. American Journal of Primatology published by Wiley Periodicals LLC. This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs License, which permits use and distribution in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited, the use is non-commercial and no modifications or adaptations are made.
Divisions:	Schools > School of Social Sciences
Record created by:	Laura Ward
Date Added:	18 Mar 2024 09:27
Last Modified:	18 Mar 2024 09:27
URI:	https://irep.ntu.ac.uk/id/eprint/51098

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