Fitness costs and benefits of intergroup interactions in banded mongooses in Queen Elizabeth National Park, Uganda, 2000-2019

This is a dataset on mortality costs and reproductive success from intergroup conflict in banded mongooses, collected from a wild population of banded mongooses on the Mweya Peninsula, Queen Elizabeth National Park, Uganda between 2000-2019. We observed naturally occurring, aggressive interactions between social groups and recorded data on individual mortality occurring during and as a result of fighting. We used long term observations of reproductive events to determine individual reproductive success, measured as the total number of offspring assigned to each individual over the lifetime, and the number of offspring born to each individual from extra-group mating. We recorded data on oestrus events in social groups to determine when focal and rival groups were in oestrus simultaneously, and whether they were involved in an intergroup interaction with each other. These data were collected to examine the fitness costs and benefits of intergroup conflict. Full details about this dataset can be found at https://doi.org/10.5285/a1f3d7e5-934f-4b12-ba7c-c372ce9df2c6

本数据集记录了带狨在乌干达女王 Elizabeth 国家公园 Mweya 半岛野生种群中，2000-2019 年间因群际冲突而产生的死亡率成本与繁殖成功率。我们观察了社会群体间自然发生的攻击性互动，并记录了在争斗期间及由此引发的个体死亡率数据。通过长期观察繁殖事件，我们确定了个体的繁殖成功率，该成功率以每个个体在其一生中分配到的后代总数以及每个个体从群际交配中诞生的后代数量来衡量。我们记录了社会群体中的发情事件数据，以确定焦点群体与竞争群体是否同时处于发情期，以及它们是否相互参与群际互动。收集这些数据旨在探究群际冲突的适应性成本与收益。关于本数据集的详细信息可在以下链接找到：https://doi.org/10.5285/a1f3d7e5-934f-4b12-ba7c-c372ce9df2c6