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The premating period was defined as the month prior to the mating days.
As reported at Beza-Mahafaly [45], also at Berenty males started visiting neighbouring groups prior to the mating days.
Moreover we used the Wilcoxon match-pairs signed rank test to compare the frequency of male-to-female and female-to-male grooming between premating and mating days.
However, the group could split during the mating days: in this case, the observers separated to follow the two different subgroups.
In short, the biological market underwent seasonal fluctuations, since males bargained grooming for sex in the mating days and grooming for itself in the premating period.
The level of estrous overlap between females was assumed to be a function of the average number of mating days by individual females per ovulatory cycle, the duration of the mating season, and the number of females in the social group [10].
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Specifically, they started visiting our groups 23 days before the first mating day.
The mating day was considered as embryonic day 0 (E0) and the day of birth as postnatal day 0 (P0).
The pregnant or pseudopregnant period was defined from the last mating day to the delivery day or the day that P4 metabolite concentration declined to the baseline level.
As a matter of fact, several out-group males started visiting our study group 23 days before the first mating day.
This pattern was also observed in control pregnant mice (CBA/J x BALB/c), where the mean change in MAP from mating day decreased between days 8 and 15 in BALB/c mated CBA/J mice.
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