Data from: Demographic, behavioral, and ecological data from a long-term field study of wild baboons in Amboseli, Kenya

Long-term data sets on individually recognized animals and their
environments are critical to understanding animal behavior, evolution, and
ecology. However, they are resource- and time-intensive and seldom made
publicly available. The Amboseli Baboon Research Project (ABRP) is one of
the longest-running studies of a wild mammal population in the world and
has collected extensive data on the baboon population of the Amboseli
ecosystem in Kenya since 1971. Here, we describe four ABRP data sets newly
available to the evolutionary biology, behavioral ecology, and primatology
communities: (1) the sizes and demographic compositions of 21 social
groups from 1971-2023; (2) the activity budgets of adult females and
immatures from 1984-2023; (3) behavioral data on diet for adult females
and immatures from 1984-2023; and (4) weather data, including
precipitation from 1976-2023 and temperature from 1976-2022. Data are
aggregated annually and monthly to enable cross-data set analyses. These
data offer a rare longitudinal perspective on behavioral and ecological
change in a wild mammal population.