… Our goal was to provide insights into mammalian maternal investment patterns by examining
data from giraffes. Given length of interbirth interval, a life history strategy encouraging …

… effort hypothesis predicts lower levels of maternal care in older and/or more … of maternal
care, and rate of successful nursing bouts as a predictor of maternal investment, in captive giraffe …

… during the most intensive period of maternal care. Growth rates and … mass of our giraffes
may be an artefact of captivity, for example, … However, the weights of captive giraffes from other …

… from social foraging, ie the aggregation of maternal kin and sharing of resources between
… habitat may affect giraffe behaviour, and include data from captive studies that supplement …

… maternal investment in terms of suckling bout duration to sons than to daughters in captive
giraffes. … This demonstrates that once captive giraffe females decided to accept a nonfilial calf …

… In combination with the present study, we conclude that captive giraffe mothers show similar
… Therefore, at least several months before parturition, maternal investment should transfer …

… of giraffe we aim to better understand the fluctuations of giraffe weights and to test the
reliability of BCS use to monitor changes in giraffe … of life of giraffe in captivity. The weight of the …

… Captive giraffes reveal a similar pattern of a sharp decline in nursing frequency coinciding
with … maternal nutritional status and/or milk quality among giraffes have negative impacts on …

… to chart connections between maternal physiology and behavior across the reproductive cycle.
We found that giraffe gestation averages 448 days … Maternal investment in captive giraffes …

… Conception in giraffes is also dependent on maternal condition, and is likely regulated by …
elephants (Loxodonta africana Blumenbach) such that giraffe mothers who give birth in the dry …