Hi there. I couldn't find anything posted previously, and being a new member I'm quite baffled. Can anybody help me understand what the two numbers separated by a point/colon mean? I usually see it when people are describing a zoo's collection, and assume it means the number of male/female members there are of that species in the collection. However, I have also seen this in reference to a particular member of a collection, e.g. 0.1 [NAME] - [IMPORT/BIRTH INFO]. Could anybody help advise me on this, and/or any other common abbreviations/similar that may pop up from time to time? Thank you all so much! Going to put this photo of mine here to give you something semi/interesting to have a look at. Again, thank you! West Midland Safari Park - 'White' (Leucistic) Tiger - March 2023 by Mac posted 1 Jun 2023 at 6:41 AM
It means males to females. 1:0 means male, 0:1 means female. 5:7 for example means 5 males, 7 females.
The full convention is: male.female.unknown (1.1.1) E.g. a troop of baboons with an unsexed infant could be 3.15.1
Again, thank you SO much! I didn't think of asking that to be honest as I've only seen it a couple times and forgot. Thank you!
