Table 1 Number of provisioning and begging events for reproductive females which begged and/or were provisioned at least once. Please note that not all provisioned females listed in the table have been used in our analyses.

From: Food-provisioning negatively affects calf survival and female reproductive success in bottlenose dolphins

Individual

Reproductive success

Provisioning events

Begging events

Bignick

0.14

394

2

Cracker

0.08

160

2

Key

NA*

15

2

Kwilina

0.12

1

0

Fence

0.11

11

0

Flattop

0.25

2

5

Leeuwin

0.25

0

1

Levy

0.12

2512

19

Lumpy

0.13

233

8

Mars

0.2

0

2

Mrs Iruka

0.25

0

26

Nicky

0.14

436

0

Shanty

0.10

1018

46

Tangles

0.25

466

0

Tipex

0.28

1

1

Wave

0.28

0

1

  1. Reproductive success was calculated as a rate based on the number of weaned calves (calves that survived till three years of age) in relation to the number of years in which a female was reproductively active. *Reproductive success of Key was not calculated as her only calf was still dependent at the time of the study.
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